Sixteen new generic records of Korean Bryozoa from southern coastal waters and Jeju Island, East China Sea: evidence of tropical affinities
Author
Yang, Ho Jin
Author
Seo, Ji Eun
Author
Gordon, Dennis P.
text
Zootaxa
2018
4422
4
493
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4422.4.3
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Bryopesanser ascendosolaris
Tilbrook, 2012
(Figs 19–21)
Escharina pesanseris
:
Harmer 1957
: 998
(part).
Bryopesanser ascendosolaris
Tilbrook, 2012
: 53
, figs 32–34.
Material
examined.
One
colony (NIBRIV00000805888),
Munseom Island
,
Jeju
,
20 m
, collected by
Ho Jin Yang.
FIGURE 18.
Saevitella jejuensis
n. sp.
, holotype, Munseom Island, showing an autozooid and ovicellate orifices.
FIGURES 19–21.
Bryopesanser ascendosolaris
Tilbrook, 2006
, Munseom Island.
19,
ovicellate zooid;
20,
autozooid and two ovicellate orifices;
21,
articular ridges and orificial sinus.
FIGURE 22.
Jodoella koreensis
n. gen. et sp.
, holotype, Jodo Island, showing autozooids. Scale bars: 18–20, 300 µm; 21, 20 µm; 22, 200 µm.
Description.
Colony encrusting, multiserial, unilaminar, white, up to
7 mm
across. Autozooids variably subelongate-rectangular, widening or narrowing proximally, with distinct boundaries. Frontal shield opaque, imperforate in older zooids owing to thin layer of secondary calcification; neanic zooids at margin evenly and densely perforated by 100 or more tiny pseudopores. Orifice very much longer than wide, distally arched, parallelsided, proximal rim straight with right-angled proximolateral corners; long, narrow, ridged condyles occupy entire rim either side of deep, narrow sinus. Seven oral spines.
Avicularia always paired, each adjacent to latero-oral spines, incurved, with triangular rostrum and complete crossbar. Mandible with V-shaped sclerite; one arm may have short branch between the two longer arms.
Ooecium relatively short, set somewhat distally such that entire orifice can be seen, skeletal surface smooth with crescentic flattened area proximofrontally. Six oral spines present in ovicellate zooids.
Interzooidal communication via mural septula. Ancestrula not seen.
Measurements.
ZL 440–633 (552) µm; ZW 311–477 (375) µm; OrL 43–74 (56) µm; OrW 54–73 (61) µm; AvL 50–77 (62) µm; AvW 30–45 (40) µm; OoL 91–127 (105) µm; OoW 171–192 (183) µm.
Remarks.
This species has been seen only once before.
Tilbrook (2012)
separated it from material examined by
Harmer (1957)
from an indeterminate locality in
Japan
. The sole specimen (
holotype
) comprises only nine zooids (some not whole), but the characters are distinctive and the present specimen accords with Tilbrook’s description. It remains to be seen if
Mastigophora dutertrei
var.
japonica
Ortmann, 1890
from Sagami Bay is conspecific with
B. ascendosolaris
or represents a second species from
Japan
. It also has seven oral spines.
Distribution.
Japan
: locality uncertain.
Korea
:
Jeju
Island,
20 m
depth.