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.
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Zootaxa
2018
4422
4
493
518
journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4422.4.3
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Dibunostoma reversum
(
Harmer, 1926
)
(
Fig. 1
)
Calpensia reversa
Harmer, 1926
: 309
, pl. 20, figs 13–16.
Dibunostoma reversum
:
Cheetham 1963
: 52
, fig. 27a;
Soule
et al
. 1991a
: 462
;
Soule
et al
. 1992
: 7
.?
Thalamotreptos reversus
:
Soule
et al
. 1991a
: 460
, pl. 4, fig. 4.
FIGURE 1.
Dibunostoma reversum
(Harmer, 1926)
, Munseom Island, showing autozooids and a single interzooidal avicularium.
FIGURES 2–5.
Copidozoum rhoae
n. sp.
, holotype, Munseom Island.
2,
autozooids, ovicellate zooids and large avicularia;
3,
part of unbleached colony showing the shape and disposition of oral spines;
4,
close-up of part of Fig. 2 showing ooecia in more detail; note the narrow peripheral band of calcified ectooecium (arrow);
5,
large interzooidal avicularium. Scale bars: 1, 500 µm; 2–4, 200 µm; 5, 50 µm.
Material
examined.
Two
colonies (NIBRIV0000805879, MBRBKW1),
Munseom Island
,
Jeju
,
20 m
, collected by
Ho Jin Yang.
Description.
Colony encrusting, multiserial, unilaminar, unpigmented, up to
25 mm
across. Autozooids more or less subrectangular, longer than wide, the raised lateral margins parallel, usually slightly converging proximad, less often diverging. Cryptocyst sunken below level of zooidal rim, rising towards proximal rim of opesia-orifice from level of opesiules; cryptocystal surface densely granular and minutely pitted proximal to opesiules, not pitted where it rises up to proximal orificial rim. Opesiules paired, conspicuous subrounded to suboval.
Opesia as wide as long or wider; orifice with extensive sloping oral shelf and rounded rim distally, narrowing to short, straight proximal margin. No oral spines. A conspicuous pair of mamilliform knobs flanking orifice.
Avicularium interzooidal, small, short, asymmetrical, at bifurcation of zooid row, directed obliquely proximally and indenting orificial rim; rostrum shaped like equilateral triangle; mandibular pivots blunt, weakly developed; proximal cryptocyst granular.
Ooecia unknown. Ancestrula not seen.
Measurements.
ZL 780–1036 (895) µm; ZW 436–528 (472) µm; OrL 93–132 (117) µm; OrW 162–207 (189) µm; AvL 272–315 (296) µm; AvW 235–267 (249) µm.
Remarks.
This species is notable for its short, reversed-orientation interzooidal avicularia. It was questionably included in their new genus
Thalamotreptos
by
Soule
et al
. (1991a)
, who equivocated on the scope of
Dibunostoma
Cheetham, 1963
. A key character of
Thalamotreptos
was the proximally or proximolaterally directed avicularium. Two of the species included in
Thalamotreptos
have a small opesial foramen separated from the avicularian rostrum by a cryptocystal bridge (which may not function as a pivot bar), lacking in
D. reversum
. Conceivably this bridge was lost in
D. reversum
or
Thalamotreptos
is unrelated and may be retained as a separate genus.
Distribution.
Sri Lanka
: locality unknown;
Korea
:
Jeju
Island,
20 m
depth.