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<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2EB9490FB9E204FE5EAB87" bold="true" box="[151,419,876,902]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="61">Biflustra perambulata</emphasis>
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(
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)
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<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2EB9490FB9E2B3FE6FABF4" bold="true" box="[151,402,987,1013]" pageId="2" pageNumber="61">Material examined.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2EB9490EB5E2B4FDF4ABF4" box="[411,521,988,1013]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="61">Holotype</emphasis>
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. MBM-J.1.1.1 ― a colony of
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diameter, collected from an oil-tanker berth in
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Harbour (
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,
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), Kerala,
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, deposited in the Marine Biodiversity Museum, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (Government of
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),
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.
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<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2EB9490FE8E527FEAEAC68" bold="true" box="[198,339,1103,1129]" pageId="2" pageNumber="61">Etymology.</emphasis>
The species name is derived from the Latin
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, meaning to travel over, alluding to the capability of the genus/species to colonize contiguous marine ecosystems through transportation by natural or artificial means.
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<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2EB9490FE8E5ABFEBBACDC" bold="true" box="[198,326,1219,1245]" pageId="2" pageNumber="61">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Colony erect, bilamellar, from an initially encrusting base, becoming so foliaceous as to give the appearance of silky floating cloth; thin and brittle. Zooids elongate-rectangular, the distal and proximal margins slightly convex distally to almost straight, 540600 μm long and 330350 μm wide, arranged quincuncially with fine demarcations between them (
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). Opesia oval. No gymnocyst. Cryptocyst mainly developed in the proximolateral corners of each zooid, the midproximal margin of the opesia closely approaching the proximal end of the zooid; cryptocystal surface with sparsely scattered granulations that appear as tiny denticulations along the edge of the narrow lateral cryptocyst that attenuates or disappears distally; median denticulate process absent (
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).
<collectingCountry id="F3237675AE2EB9490C2CE4BAFCDEADED" box="[770,803,1490,1516]" name="American Samoa" pageId="2" pageNumber="61">As</collectingCountry>
seen in profile, the distal part of the zooid somewhat elevated to form a low-arched crest that is granular-crenulated (
<figureCitation id="130F2A60AE2EB9490CADE491FC36AE12" box="[899,971,1529,1555]" captionStart="FIGURE 5" captionStartId="4.[151,255,1814,1838]" captionTargetBox="[468,1117,1350,1789]" captionTargetId="figure@4.[468,1118,1350,1790]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="FIGURE 5. Biflustra perambulata n. sp. Distal rim of an autozooid in a continuous zooid row; note the crenulations of the distal zooid rim as seen en face. Scale-bar: 100 μm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/187001/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="61">Fig. 5</figureCitation>
). Multiporous mural septula set high in each lateral wall, 2 pairs proximolateral and 2 pairs distolateral, each with 59 perforations in the septulum (pore plate) (
<figureCitation id="130F2A60AE2EB9490E1DE72EFE83AE61" box="[307,382,1606,1632]" captionStart="FIGURE 6" captionStartId="5.[151,255,657,681]" captionTargetBox="[468,1117,194,632]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[468,1118,194,633]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURE 6. Biflustra perambulata n. sp. Autozooids in lateral view, showing the interior of a lateral wall; note the high position in the wall of the pore-plates, with subjacent parietal muscle scars and the scar of the operculum occlusor muscle at right. Note also the slightly elevated distal rims of autozooids as seen in profile. Scalebar: 100 μm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/187002/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="61">Fig. 6</figureCitation>
). Small round insertion scars of parietal muscles also set fairly high in the lateral walls, with a much larger scar of operculum occlusor muscles set mid-height in the lateral wall below the distalmost septulum (
<figureCitation id="130F2A60AE2EB9490E34E7FCFE95AEAF" box="[282,360,1684,1710]" captionStart="FIGURE 6" captionStartId="5.[151,255,657,681]" captionTargetBox="[468,1117,194,632]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[468,1118,194,633]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURE 6. Biflustra perambulata n. sp. Autozooids in lateral view, showing the interior of a lateral wall; note the high position in the wall of the pore-plates, with subjacent parietal muscle scars and the scar of the operculum occlusor muscle at right. Note also the slightly elevated distal rims of autozooids as seen in profile. Scalebar: 100 μm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/187002/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="61">Fig. 6</figureCitation>
). A crescent of uniporous septula in each transverse wall; at each upturned end of the crescent is a cluster of such pores (
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).
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<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2FB9480FB9E23EFEE4AB6F" bold="true" box="[151,281,854,878]" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2FB9480E0EE23FFDF1AB6F" box="[288,524,855,878]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">Biflustra perambulata</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2FB9480D3DE23EFDB2AB6F" bold="true" box="[531,591,854,878]" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">n. sp.</emphasis>
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, showing the white and foliaceous nature of the colony.
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<paragraph id="8B8B36E5AE2FB9480FE8E2AAFE83ACEE" blockId="3.[151,1437,962,1996]" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">
<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2FB9480FE8E2AAFECAABDB" bold="true" box="[198,311,962,986]" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">Remarks:</emphasis>
The genus
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<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2FB9480E99E2ABFDE9ABDB" box="[439,532,963,986]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">Biflustra</emphasis>
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has a concentration of species in East Asian waters. In recent decades, Xixing Liu and colleagues have described a number of them (as
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<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2FB9480DFFE28DFC8FABFD" box="[721,882,997,1020]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">Membranipora</emphasis>
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) from coastal Chinese waters (
<bibRefCitation id="EFA54B14AE2FB9480BEFE28DFADAABFD" author="Liu" box="[1217,1319,997,1020]" pageId="3" pageNumber="67" refString="Liu, X. (1991) A study on the anascan-cribrimorphan bryozoans from Nansha Islands of China. Bulletin of the Marine Biology of Nansha Islands and Neighbouring Seas, 1, 56 - 81. [In Chinese with English Summary]" type="journal article" year="1991">Liu 1991</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="EFA54B14AE2FB9480A1DE28DFA96ABFD" author="Liu" box="[1331,1387,997,1020]" pageId="3" pageNumber="67" refString="Liu, X. - X. (1992) On the genus Membranipora (Anasca: Cheilostomata: Bryozoa) from south Chinese seas. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 40, 103 - 144." type="journal article" year="1992">1992</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="EFA54B14AE2FB9480A59E28DFEF4AC1E" author="Liu" pageId="3" pageNumber="67" refString="Liu, X. &amp; Li, C. (1987) Six new species of bryozoans from the waters of Hong Kong and Zhu Jiang estuary. Journal of Oceanography of Taiwan Strait, 6, 53 - 68, 4 pls. [In Chinese with English summary]" type="journal article" year="1987">Liu &amp; Li 1987</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="EFA54B14AE2FB9480E3AE560FE48AC1E" author="Liu" box="[276,437,1032,1055]" pageId="3" pageNumber="67" refString="Liu, X., Yin, X. &amp; Xia, W. (1999) Significance of early astogeny of cheilostome bryozoans in their evolution. I. The characteristics of early astogeny of suborder Malacostegina (Membraniporidae and Electridae), with descriptions of a new genus and six new species. Studia Marina Sinica, 41, 128 - 167, pls 1 - 3. [In Chinese with English summary]" type="journal article" year="1999">
Liu
<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2FB9480E6EE560FE92AC1E" box="[320,367,1032,1055]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">et al</emphasis>
. 1999
</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="EFA54B14AE2FB9480E91E560FE0AAC1E" author="Liu" box="[447,503,1032,1055]" pageId="3" pageNumber="67" refString="Liu, X., Yin, X. &amp; Ma, J. (2001) Biology of Marine-Fouling Bryozoans in the Coastal Waters of China. Beijing, Science Press. 860 pp., 82 pls. [In Chinese with English Summary]" type="book" year="2001">2001</bibRefCitation>
;
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), and the genus is otherwise known from
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and the
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to the Red Sea (
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). Species of
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<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2FB9480D57E543FD24AC43" box="[633,729,1067,1090]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">Biflustra</emphasis>
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can look superficially similar and be easily confused with each other, in part owing to the relative lack of morphological characters ― for example there are no zooidal polymorphs or external skeletal reproductive structures. Nevertheless, as
<bibRefCitation id="EFA54B14AE2FB9480C16E518FC4EAC86" author="Liu" box="[824,947,1136,1159]" pageId="3" pageNumber="67" refString="Liu, X. - X. (1992) On the genus Membranipora (Anasca: Cheilostomata: Bryozoa) from south Chinese seas. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 40, 103 - 144." type="journal article" year="1992">Liu (1992)</bibRefCitation>
clearly demonstrated, the distribution and arrangement of septular pores in transverse and lateral walls constitute useful characters, and, as shown by
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Liu
<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2FB9480A4AE5FBFA68ACAB" box="[1380,1429,1171,1194]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">et al</emphasis>
. (2001)
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, details of the cryptocyst as revealed by scanning electron microscopy are very informative, especially if one has an ontogenetic series.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2FB9480FE8E593FE2DAD15" box="[198,464,1275,1300]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">Biflustra perambulata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
differs from other described species of the genus in all of these characters, including from
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<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2FB9480E62E449FE0EAD3B" box="[332,499,1313,1338]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">B. grandicella</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFA54B14AE2FB9480D2CE449FCF4AD3A" author="Canu" box="[514,777,1313,1339]" pageId="3" pageNumber="66" refString="Canu, F. &amp; Bassler, R. S. (1929) Bryozoa of the Philippine region. Bulletin, U. S National Museum, 100, i - xi, 1 - 685, pls 1 - 94." type="journal article" year="1929">Canu &amp; Bassler, 1929</bibRefCitation>
)
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, which it superficially resembles.
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indicated in figure 8, the sizes of the zooids of these species differ (at least in
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material of
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<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2FB9480BE8E420FA87AD60" box="[1222,1402,1352,1377]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">B. grandicella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as compared with Indian material of
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<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2FB9480D04E407FD1FAD89" box="[554,738,1391,1416]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">B. perambulata</emphasis>
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, although water temperature could account in part for this) more significantly, the cryptocyst in
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<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2FB9480D46E4FDFCE1ADAF" box="[616,796,1429,1454]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">B. grandicella</emphasis>
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is more extensive proximally, can develop coarser granulation in ephebic zooids, and produce rare spinules on the edge of the cryptocyst. None of these features is found in
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<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2FB9480E0CE48BFE20ADFD" box="[290,477,1507,1532]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">B. perambulata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, which is a less robust, more foliaceous species that is white in the living state compared with the pale buff colour of
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<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2FB9480D74E761FCFCAE23" box="[602,769,1545,1570]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">B. grandicella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B8B36E5AE2FB9480FE8E758FC82AFCD" blockId="3.[151,1437,962,1996]" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">
The only other described species of
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<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2FB9480D5BE758FD21AE48" box="[629,732,1584,1609]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">Biflustra</emphasis>
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to have been recorded in Indian waters is
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<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2FB9480BF9E758FAAEAE48" box="[1239,1363,1584,1609]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">B. savartii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
auctt. (as
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<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2FB9480FEFE73FFE8EAE71" box="[193,371,1623,1648]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">Membranipora</emphasis>
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) (see
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for Indian records), but the precise identity of this form with a well-developed cryptocystal process is in doubt.
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<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2FB9480DF6E715FC6DAE97" box="[728,912,1661,1686]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">Flustra savartii</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFA54B14AE2FB9480CB6E715FBB7AE96" author="Audouin" box="[920,1098,1661,1687]" pageId="3" pageNumber="66" refString="Audouin, J. V. (1826) Explication sommaire des planches de polypes de l'Egypte et de la Syrie, publiees par Jules-Cesar Savigny. In: Description de l'Egypte, ou receuil des observations et des recherches qui ont ete faites en Egypte pendant l'Expedition de ' Armee francaise ... Histoire naturelle. Vol. 1, Part 4. Paris, Imprimerie Imperiale. 339 p." type="book" year="1826">Audouin, 1826</bibRefCitation>
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was first described from the Red Sea, but the illustrations executed by
<bibRefCitation id="EFA54B14AE2FB9480DA5E7CCFC7DAEBF" author="Savigny" box="[651,896,1700,1726]" pageId="3" pageNumber="67" refString="Savigny, J. C. (1817) Description de l'Egypte, ou receuil des observations et des recherches qui ont ete faites en Egypte pendant l'Expedition de ' Armee francaise ... Histoire naturelle. Vol. 2, Planches. Paris, Imprimerie Royale. 125 pls." type="journal article" year="1817">J. C. Savigny (1817)</bibRefCitation>
(see
<bibRefCitation id="EFA54B14AE2FB9480C91E7CCFB0EAEBF" author="Bouchet" box="[959,1267,1700,1726]" pageId="3" pageNumber="66" refString="Bouchet, P. &amp; Danrigal, F. (1982) Napoleon's Egyptian campaign (1798 - 1801) and the Savigny collection of shells. The Nautilus, 96, 9 - 24." type="journal article" year="1982">Bouchet &amp; Danrigal 1982</bibRefCitation>
) plainly show the zooids as having usually a small tubercle in each proximolateral corner of the cryptocyst and no median process (dHondt 2006). Despite the fact that numerous authors during the past 100 years have attributed species with a median cryptocystal process to Audouins species, nothing precisely resembling Savignys illustrated material has turned up, although, if specimens of our new species were to be found with paired cryptocystal tubercles, then it could be considered as a candidate for synonymy with
<emphasis id="B940EAF7AE2FB9480B51E60EFA61AF7E" box="[1151,1436,1894,1919]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">
<taxonomicName id="4C344D66AE2FB9480B51E60EFABFAF7E" box="[1151,1346,1894,1919]" class="Gymnolaemata" family="Flustridae" genus="Flustra" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cheilostomatida" pageId="3" pageNumber="62" phylum="Bryozoa" rank="subSpecies" species="savartii" subSpecies="sensu">
B. savartii
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stricto.
</emphasis>
At present,
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<taxonomicName id="4C344D66AE2FB9480E0FE6E4FE60AFA4" box="[289,413,1932,1957]" class="Gymnolaemata" family="Flustridae" genus="Flustra" kingdom="Animalia" order="Cheilostomatida" pageId="3" pageNumber="62" phylum="Bryozoa" rank="species" sensu="stricto" species="savartii">B. savartii</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A273578CAE2FB9480E8BE6E4FE31AFA4" box="[421,460,1932,1957]" pageId="3" pageNumber="62" sensu="stricto">s.s.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
remains inadequately characterized and all species with a well-developed median process must be considered as belonging to some other species.
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