Bryozoa of Floridan Oculina reefs Author Judith L Winston text Zootaxa 2016 4071 1 1 81 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4071.1.1 8ffe5a88-06f7-44af-95aa-5fd49e0302c4 1175-5326 260490 D47C792F-E91D-40A6-ABB7-FA7810578562 Microeciella floridana (Canu & Bassler, 1928a) comb. nov. ( Fig. 41 ; Table 40 ) Peristomoecia floridana Canu & Bassler, 1928a: 158 , pl. 31, figs 6–9. Proboscina floridana : Osburn 1940: 329 . TABLE 40. Measurements in mm of Microeciella floridana (Canu & Bassler, 1928a).

Lz	Wz	Do	Lgz	Wgz
N	18	18	18	4	4
Mean	0.694	0.104	0.077	0.414	0.378
SD	0.071	0.008	0.008	0.089	0.066
Min	0.540	0.090	0.063	0.306	0.306
Max	0.810	0.117	0.090	0.504	0.450

Material examined. VMNH no. 70663, 70664. Description. Colony small, encrusting ( Fig. 41 A, B), with narrow growing margin. Zooids developing quincuncially in flat fan-like lobes, zooid peristomes free, erect to tilted at angle toward growing edge, without narrowed terminal diaphragm ( Fig. 41 D, E). Pseudopores relatively large, moderately dense, depressed ( Fig. 41 F). Gonozooid small, oval, with slightly more densely spaced pseudopores and short ooeciostome, tilted back toward colony origin ( Fig. 41 C). Remarks. Specimens from the Oculina samples are similar to the Eastern Atlantic material described and illustrated by Hayward & Ryland (1985) and De Blauwe (2009) as Eurystrotos compacta (Norman, 1866) . In their revision of three encrusting genera of Oncousoeciidae, Taylor & Zaton (2008) synonymized E. compacta with Microeciella suborbicularis (Hincks, 1880) . The gonozooids of the colonies in the Oculina samples were ovoid and most closely resemble the material that Canu and Bassler named Peristomoecia floridana , hence their species name has been used here. Distribution. Floridan Atlantic shelf to Straits of Florida.