Freshwater bryozoans of Korea-observations on living colonies and three new records
Author
Chae, Hyun Sook
Department of Life Science, Woosuk University, Jincheon 27841, Republic of Korea
Author
Kil, Hyun Jong
National Migratory Birds Center, National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon 22689, Republic of Korea
Author
Seo, Ho Jin Yang and Ji Eun
text
Journal of Species Research
2024
13
1
50
60
journal article
10.12651/JSR.2024.13.1.050
2713-8615
13161977
5.
Plumatella casmiana
Oka, 1907
(
Fig. 5
)
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Material examined.
Dongrim Reservoir,
10 July 2015
; Chopyeong Reservoir,
2 August 2016
; Baekgok Reservoir,
30 September 2016
.
Substratum.
Wood and plastic.
Remarks.
We collected the colony and two different statoblasts, leptoblasts, and sessoblasts, for the first time since
Toriumi (1941)
reported from the
Korea
. Colony is light brown to sandish in color, short branched and entirely attached to substratum (
Fig. 5A
). Leptoblast unique to
Pl. casmiana
(
Wood and Okamura, 2005
)
is elliptical, 288-320 μm long and 124-155 μm wide, with length/ width ratio of about 2.2 (
Fig. 5B
), lacks the internal capsule, and has shallow tubercles on the surface and narrow annulus. Sessoblast is tuberculated weakly on the surface, but nearly smooth. It is 341-345 μm long and 234-241 μm wide, with length/width ratio of about 1.4 and narrow and smooth annulus (
Fig. 5C, D
).
Fig. 6.
Plumatella fungosa
(Pallas, 1768)
. A, Dorsal view, flatoblast; B, Ventral view, flatoblast; C, Annulus and fenestra in detail; D, Sessoblast. Scale bars: A, B, D
=
100 μm, C
=
30 μm.
Distribution.
Korea
and Cosmopolitan.