Diversity and taxonomy of rocky-intertidal Bryozoa on the Island of Hawaii, USA
Author
Dick, Matthew H.
Author
Tilbrook, Kevin J.
Author
Mawatari, Shunsuke F.
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Journal of Natural History
2006
2006-12-25
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38 - 40
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930601062771
journal article
10.1080/00222930601062771
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Crepidacantha longiseta
Canu and Bassler, 1928
(
Figure 13G, H
)
Crepidacantha longiseta
Canu and Bassler 1928
, p 135
, Plate 21,
Figures 3
,
4
.
Crepidacantha longiseta
:
Gordon 1984
, p 113
, Plate 44C;
Tilbrook et al. 2001
, p 92
,
Figure 16B
.
Measurements
ZL, 0.40–0.53 (0.461¡0.048). ZW, 0.33–0.43 (0.368¡0.030). OrL, 0.09–0.11 (0.102¡0.007). OrW, 0.08–0.09 (0.084¡0.005). OvL, 0.15–0.20 (0.178¡0.022). OvW, 0.18–0.23 (0.203¡0.019) (ovicell
n
55).
Description
Colony unilaminar, encrusting, light tan to off-white in colour. Frontal wall finely tuberculate, imperforate, with small, scarcely evident marginal pores. Primary orifice (
Figure 13G
) constricted laterally by obliquely triangular condylar processes; proximal margin straight. Oral spines lacking. Peristome proximal to orifice slightly developed as a thick, crescent-shaped ridge with a slight umbo in midline. A pair of avicularia lies lateral to orifice, both pointing proximally with long-setose mandibles; zooids with numerous long, spinous processes (
Figure 13H
) around zooidal margin. Ovicell (
Figure 13G
) raised, globose, smooth, slightly ridged in midline, with a double row of small pores in a crescent near distal end.
Distribution
Putatively circumtropical;
Brazil
, Caribbean,
Mauritius
,
Vanuatu
, and western Indian Ocean (
Tilbrook et al. 2001
). This is the first record for the Hawaiian Islands.
Superfamily
CELLEPOROIDEA
Johnston, 1838
Family
PHIDOLOPORIDAE
Gabb and Horn, 1862