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<emphasis id="B912EAECFFE4FF8CFF15FEA3FEBF2321" bold="true" box="[151,290,361,383]" pageId="6" pageNumber="477">Type species.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B912EAECFFE4FF8CFEABFEA3FDDD2321" box="[297,576,361,383]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="477">Schizoporella subhexagona</emphasis>
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, by monotypy.
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<emphasis id="B912EAECFFE4FF8CFF15FE66FE83239B" bold="true" box="[151,286,428,453]" pageId="6" pageNumber="477">Etymology.</emphasis>
Honorific for Woosuk University, Jeonju and Jincheon, the center of bryozoology in
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.
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<emphasis id="B912EAECFFE4FF8CFF45FE05FEDC23B6" bold="true" box="[199,321,463,488]" pageId="6" pageNumber="477">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Colony encrusting, unilaminar. Zooids contiguous, with densely pseudoporous frontal shields and dimorphic orifices. Autozooidal orifice with sinus and thin ledge-like condyles, no oral spines. No avicularia. Female zoooids and orifices of different form; ooecium large, ectooecium membranous, endooecium densely perforated by variably shaped pseudopores, peripheral ones tending to be larger or even radially linear; orifice cleithral, broad with shallow sinus. Maternal zooid with frontal shield like that of autozooid.
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<emphasis id="B912EAECFFE4FF8CFF45FD4EFEA620C3" bold="true" box="[199,315,644,669]" pageId="6" pageNumber="477">Remarks.</emphasis>
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was the first to attribute
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to
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<emphasis id="B912EAECFFE4FF8CFC5DFD4EFB0620C2" box="[991,1179,644,668]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="477">Schizobrachiella</emphasis>
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but it is clear that
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(
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is not congeneric. It has avicularia, orifices are not dimorphic and the ooecium is typical of
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It is possible that
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Osburn,
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may be related. The genus is monotypic, based
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on
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from
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off southern
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California and Baja
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. The species has not been reported since and ovicells were not present in the few samples obtained by
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(as
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) and
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. Nevertheless, the characters of the autozooid and orifice are, judging by published descriptions and illustrations, similar to those of
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Avicularia and oral spines are also lacking. On the other hand, whereas the pseudopores in the three
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species (one named, two undescribed—see below) are all more or less the same size within each species, those in
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<emphasis id="B912EAECFFE4FF8CFCE4FC03FC7521BE" box="[870,1000,968,992]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="477">V. veleronis</emphasis>
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have a range of sizes, some relatively large. [At least this is as illustrated by
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. Although he included Robertsons (1908) record of
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<emphasis id="B912EAECFFE4FF8CFA05FC26FF682676" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="477">S. areolata</emphasis>
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in his synonymy, her illustration of zooids exhibiting the “adult condition” depicted pseudopores all the same size and an additional row of such pores distal to the orifice, which raises the question of conspecificity.] Minor differences notwithstanding, we cannot exclude the possibility that
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<emphasis id="B912EAECFFE4FF8CFC77FB92FBDB262E" box="[1013,1094,1112,1136]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="477">Veleroa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has yet-undiscovered female zooids and ooecia and could be congeneric with
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<emphasis id="B912EAECFFE4FF8CFD62FBB6FCD126CA" box="[736,844,1148,1172]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="477">Woosukia</emphasis>
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(and therefore a senior subjective synonym). The problem here, however, is the choice between waiting years to decades before information is obtained about reproduction in
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<emphasis id="B912EAECFFE4FF8CFED6FB0FFE442682" box="[340,473,1220,1244]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="477">V. veleronis</emphasis>
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(internal brooding or ooecia?), and leaving three species in taxonomic limbo, or creating a new genus. We have chosen the latter option.
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