Bryozoan faunas at the Tortonian-Messinian transition. A palaeoenvironmental case study from Crete Island, eastern Mediterranean Author Moissette, Pierre National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, Department of Historical Geology and Paleontology 15784, Athens (Greece) and CR 2 P (CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, Sorbonne Université), Département Origines et Évolution, UMR 7207, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, case postale 38, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) pmoissette@geol.uoa.gr Author Antonarakou, Assimina National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment Department of Historical Geology & Paleontology, 15784, Athens (Greece) aantonar@geol.uoa.gr Author Kontakiotis, George National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment Department of Historical Geology & Paleontology, 15784, Athens (Greece) gkontak@geol.uoa.gr Author Cornée, Jean-Jacques Géosciences Montpellier, Université de Montpellier Université des Antilles, CNRS, Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe, FWI (France) jean-jacques.cornee@gm.univ-montp2.fr Author Karakitsios, Vasileios National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment Department of Historical Geology & Paleontology, 15784, Athens (Greece) vkarak@geol.uoa.gr text Geodiversitas 2021 2021-12-16 43 26 1365 1400 journal article 20894 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a26 f8cedc0a-01dc-4bb0-855b-18064d237655 1638-9395 5796571 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:14A6956D-54AD-48D2-9C5E-BA380EDACAA4 Bryocryptella torquata ( Jullien, 1903 ) ( Fig. 11 A-C) Cryptella torquata Jullien in Jullien & Calvet, 1903: 77 , pl. 7, fig. 5a-c. Porella torquata – Norman 1909: 300 , pl. 39, figs 5-8. — Barroso 1912: 33 , figs 6, 6a-e. Bryocryptella torquata – Álvarez 1991: 93, fig. 5; pl. 10, figs A-E. OCCURRENCE. — Recent: eastern Atlantic (Gulf of Gascony, Madeira ). Deep-water species recorded at depths from 80 m to 300 m ( Álvarez 1991 ). DESCRIPTION Colony vinculariiform. Narrow subcylindrical branches formed by 3-4 alternating longitudinal rows of zooids opening on the same frontal side. Zooids hexagonal separated by deep furrows. Frontal ventricose with about 20 large pores. Aperture subcircular; a small avicularium is sometimes present on its proximal edge. Peristome more or less developed, devoid of pores. Dorsal slightly convex showing marked grooves corresponding to zooecial limits and a few pores. Ovicells not observed. REMARKS This species was erroneously identified as Characodoma sp. in Moissette et al. (2018) .