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Pallas, 1766: 38.
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(Pallas):
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: 1895, fig. 1a-i.
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Non
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: 83, fig. 37e-j.
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leg.; dredging; PMC
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85a
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.
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<emphasis id="3D991C8BD75A21DD900FF58983A0F623" bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figure 4.</emphasis>
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autozooids at the colony margin showing distal and distolateral pore chamber windows
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ovicellate autozooids
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autozooid with the characteristic four, thin, oral spine bases. Note how commonly avicularia regenerate
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close-up of the orifice showing a series of median denticles and two lateral condyles. Scale bars: 500
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(
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.
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The neotype chosen by
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was selected from material collected in 1984 and 2005 at Penta Palummo Bank, a submerged volcanic edifice in the Bay of Naples rising up to about 40 m depth from the surrounding 80 m shelf.
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already suggested that the Mediterranean material overall assigned to
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, might actually correspond to more than one closely related species. This was observed, for instance, in SEM images of north Adriatic specimens in
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, which differ from the neotype. Following
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,
<bibRefCitation id="5E1EF0F53E6E13355E1C8B3F00B80DEC" author="Rosso, A" editor="Relini, G" journalOrPublisher="Biologia Marina Mediterranea 17 (Suppl.)" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="589 - 615" refId="B58" refString="Rosso, A, Chimenz Gusso, C, Balduzzi, A, 2010. Bryozoa. In: Relini, G, Ed., Checklist della flora e della fauna dei mari italiani (parte II). Biologia Marina Mediterranea 17(Suppl.): 589 - 615" title="Bryozoa." volumeTitle="Checklist della flora e della fauna dei mari italiani (parte II)." year="2010">Rosso et al. (2010)</bibRefCitation>
,
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, and
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remarked on the need for a revision of the material assigned to this species, whose accorded great variability (e.g.,
<bibRefCitation id="4C2C198005529DD90E4E64B4D1B8A838" author="Gautier, YV" journalOrPublisher="Recueillis des Travaux de la Station Marine d'Endoume" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="1 - 435" refId="B29" refString="Gautier, YV, 1962. Recherches ecologiques sur les Bryozoaires Chilostomes en Mediterranee occidentale. Recueillis des Travaux de la Station Marine d'Endoume 38: 1 - 435" title="Recherches ecologiques sur les Bryozoaires Chilostomes en Mediterranee occidentale." volume="38" year="1962">Gautier 1962</bibRefCitation>
;
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) is very likely to correspond to a species complex. The effort to disentangle the
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complex began with the recent description of
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Di Martino, Taylor &amp; Gordon, 2020, and is pursued in the present paper with the description of two new species sharing with
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the general appearance and the presence of a single, lateral avicularium as well as non-personate ovicells. Examination of all material available to us, as well as images available in the literature, suggest that
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, as defined by the neotype, is possibly a rare species in the Mediterranean Sea, or at least a species with a very restricted geographical and/or ecological distribution. A similar conclusion was reached by
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after revising their material identified as
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, found associated to
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and algae between 5 and 88 m depth in several localities of the Tyrrhenian Sea (i.e., off Latium; Spargiotto Island, NE Sardinia; Ustica and Volcano Islands) and the Sicily Strait (Lampedusa Island). The revision of all specimens originally assigned to
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<emphasis id="03B1DFE355AB3BF08118444B8526B39B" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">M. ciliata</emphasis>
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or
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in the collections of one of us (AR), originating from several regions and habitats of the Mediterranean Sea, led to the detection of only one colony corresponding with the neotype (Fig.
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). Although the type locality is unknown, it is likely that the original material described by
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was collected in shallow waters from easily accessible substrates, which is not the case for the selected neotype. Colonies of
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<emphasis id="A08F70F44818CD50304C30CB3C01357C" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">M. ciliata</emphasis>
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recorded from different western Mediterranean localities (
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;
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, and references therein), Greece (
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) and Turkey (
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), all show great variability and need to be revised to ascertain their identity.
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Awaiting a general revision of specimens reported from all over the world, focusing on the Mediterranean Sea, the occurrence of
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to date is only confirmed in the Gulf of Naples (SE Tyrrhenian Sea) and the Gulf of Noto (W Ionian Sea).
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