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Chowdhury &amp; Di Martino
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Encrusting
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; zooids with single, small, distally directed adventitious avicularium, proximolateral to orifice, or lacking avicularium; some zooids with avicularium in proximolateral corner of zooid; primary orifice with smooth proximal margin and rounded corners lacking condyles; 24 ephemeral oral spines; frontal shield with relatively few pseudopores and distinct, elliptical marginal areolae; ascopore cribrate, close to the proximal margin of the orifice; ovicells rounded-quadrate, imperforate except for marginal pores.
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<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC32FFBC79F9CEBAFEC7E689" bold="true" box="[189,325,689,715]" pageId="8" pageNumber="42">Etymology</emphasis>
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Latin
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, few, plus
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, pierced, alluding to the limited number of pseudopores in the frontal shield of this species.
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, one ovicellate, on rock;
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,
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and
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leg.;
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.
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Autozooids (
<figureCitation id="95F344E7BC32FFBC7817C889FE53E0DE" box="[339,465,1154,1180]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="9.[189,232,1752,1778]" captionTargetBox="[276,1312,265,1714]" captionTargetId="figure-15@9.[276,1312,265,1714]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="Fig. 3. Microporella pauciperforata Chowdhury &amp; Di Martino sp. nov., holotype (SBMNH 704788), Trinidad Head North, California, USA. A. General view of the colony showing majority of zooids lacking avicularia (some marked with asterisks), zooid with proximolateral avicularium (arrow), and an ovicellate zooid (star). B. Group of autozooids with abraded frontal shields either lacking avicularia, or with small, lateral avicularium distally directed or placed in the proximolateral corner and directed proximally. C. Close-up of the ovicellate zooid showing a preserved reticulate ascopore. D. Close-up of reticulate ascopore. E. Close-up of an avicularium. F. Close-up of zooids with evident spine bases (white arrows). Scale bars: A = 1 mm; B = 500 µm; C, F = 200 µm; D = 60 µm; E = 100 µm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11030305" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11030305/files/figure.png" pageId="8" pageNumber="42">Fig. 3AB</figureCitation>
) generally elongate and hexagonal but sometimes irregularly shaped, delineated by narrow grooves and suture lines; ZL = 361752 µm (523±99 µm, N = 22), ZW = 223446 µm (323±59 µm, N = 22) µm, mean ZL/ZW = 1.62. Frontal shield (
<figureCitation id="95F344E7BC32FFBC7A9CC8C3FBDAE0A1" box="[984,1112,1224,1251]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="9.[189,232,1752,1778]" captionTargetBox="[276,1312,265,1714]" captionTargetId="figure-15@9.[276,1312,265,1714]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="Fig. 3. Microporella pauciperforata Chowdhury &amp; Di Martino sp. nov., holotype (SBMNH 704788), Trinidad Head North, California, USA. A. General view of the colony showing majority of zooids lacking avicularia (some marked with asterisks), zooid with proximolateral avicularium (arrow), and an ovicellate zooid (star). B. Group of autozooids with abraded frontal shields either lacking avicularia, or with small, lateral avicularium distally directed or placed in the proximolateral corner and directed proximally. C. Close-up of the ovicellate zooid showing a preserved reticulate ascopore. D. Close-up of reticulate ascopore. E. Close-up of an avicularium. F. Close-up of zooids with evident spine bases (white arrows). Scale bars: A = 1 mm; B = 500 µm; C, F = 200 µm; D = 60 µm; E = 100 µm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11030305" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11030305/files/figure.png" pageId="8" pageNumber="42">Fig. 3BC</figureCitation>
) flat to slightly convex centrally, coarsely granular, with 1336 circular pseudopores (D = 815 µm) sparsely scattered proximal to ascopore; 58 circular to elliptical, marginal areolae per side, clearly distinguishable from pseudopores because much larger (D = 2055 µm).
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Primary orifice transversely D-shaped, wider than long; OL = 64109 µm (86±12 µm, N = 22), OW = 106149 µm (120±10 µm, N = 22), mean OL/OW = 0.72, mean ZL/OL = 6.08; hinge-line straight, smooth, lacking denticles; proximolateral corners rounded without condyles. Two to four articulated spines visible in some zooids, often hidden by secondary calcification spreading from the distal zooid (
<figureCitation id="95F344E7BC32FFBC7811CA0BFE2CE259" box="[341,430,1536,1563]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="9.[189,232,1752,1778]" captionTargetBox="[276,1312,265,1714]" captionTargetId="figure-15@9.[276,1312,265,1714]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="Fig. 3. Microporella pauciperforata Chowdhury &amp; Di Martino sp. nov., holotype (SBMNH 704788), Trinidad Head North, California, USA. A. General view of the colony showing majority of zooids lacking avicularia (some marked with asterisks), zooid with proximolateral avicularium (arrow), and an ovicellate zooid (star). B. Group of autozooids with abraded frontal shields either lacking avicularia, or with small, lateral avicularium distally directed or placed in the proximolateral corner and directed proximally. C. Close-up of the ovicellate zooid showing a preserved reticulate ascopore. D. Close-up of reticulate ascopore. E. Close-up of an avicularium. F. Close-up of zooids with evident spine bases (white arrows). Scale bars: A = 1 mm; B = 500 µm; C, F = 200 µm; D = 60 µm; E = 100 µm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11030305" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11030305/files/figure.png" pageId="8" pageNumber="42">Fig. 3F</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="0D775862BC32FFBC79F9CA49FE7AE284" blockId="8.[189,1398,1602,1734]" pageId="8" pageNumber="42">
Ascopore depressed relative to adjacent frontal shield, transversely elliptical to subcircular, D = 22 35 µm, close to orifice, roughly no more than 0.51.5 ascopore widths from proximal margin; ascopore in some zooids outlined by a rim of gymnocystal calcification that also encircles orifice; ascopore opening cribrate (
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).
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<paragraph id="0D775862BC32FFBC79F9CAE6FC18E3F5" blockId="8.[187,1400,1773,1975]" pageId="8" pageNumber="42">
Avicularium usually single but often absent, located laterally on either side, in some zooids at zooidal mid-length, in some others at orifice level (
<figureCitation id="95F344E7BC32FFBC7BF3CB1BFC93E368" box="[695,785,1808,1834]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="9.[189,232,1752,1778]" captionTargetBox="[276,1312,265,1714]" captionTargetId="figure-15@9.[276,1312,265,1714]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="Fig. 3. Microporella pauciperforata Chowdhury &amp; Di Martino sp. nov., holotype (SBMNH 704788), Trinidad Head North, California, USA. A. General view of the colony showing majority of zooids lacking avicularia (some marked with asterisks), zooid with proximolateral avicularium (arrow), and an ovicellate zooid (star). B. Group of autozooids with abraded frontal shields either lacking avicularia, or with small, lateral avicularium distally directed or placed in the proximolateral corner and directed proximally. C. Close-up of the ovicellate zooid showing a preserved reticulate ascopore. D. Close-up of reticulate ascopore. E. Close-up of an avicularium. F. Close-up of zooids with evident spine bases (white arrows). Scale bars: A = 1 mm; B = 500 µm; C, F = 200 µm; D = 60 µm; E = 100 µm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11030305" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11030305/files/figure.png" pageId="8" pageNumber="42">Fig. 3E</figureCitation>
); AvL = 4078 µm (52±11 µm, N = 11), AvW = 27 57 µm (40±8 µm, N = 11) µm, mean AvL/AvW = 1.3; crossbar complete; triangular rostrum, usually directed distally but sometimes laterally, slightly depressed relative to adjacent frontal shield; in some zooids, slightly larger avicularium was observed in one of the proximolateral corners, directed proximally or proximolaterally inwards (
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). Mandible not observed.
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<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC33FFBD79F9CAD3FE8FE2B0" bold="true" box="[189,269,1752,1778]" pageId="9" pageNumber="43">Fig. 3.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC33FFBD7851CAD3FDEEE2B0" box="[277,620,1752,1778]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="43">Microporella pauciperforata</emphasis>
Chowdhury &amp; Di Martino
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, holotype (SBMNH 704788), Trinidad Head North, California, USA.
<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC33FFBD7BE0CAF0FD3BE357" bold="true" box="[676,697,1787,1813]" pageId="9" pageNumber="43">A</emphasis>
. General view of the colony showing majority of zooids lacking avicularia (some marked with asterisks), zooid with proximolateral avicularium (arrow), and an ovicellate zooid (star).
<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC33FFBD78A9CB49FD83E31E" bold="true" box="[493,513,1858,1884]" pageId="9" pageNumber="43">B</emphasis>
. Group of autozooids with abraded frontal shields either lacking avicularia, or with small, lateral avicularium distally directed or placed in the proximolateral corner and directed proximally.
<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC33FFBD7808CB83FEE3E3E0" bold="true" box="[332,353,1928,1954]" pageId="9" pageNumber="43">C</emphasis>
. Close-up of the ovicellate zooid showing a preserved reticulate ascopore.
<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC33FFBD7DACCB83FB79E3E0" bold="true" box="[1256,1275,1928,1954]" pageId="9" pageNumber="43">D</emphasis>
. Close-up of reticulate ascopore.
<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC33FFBD788BCBA0FE63E387" bold="true" box="[463,481,1963,1989]" pageId="9" pageNumber="43">E</emphasis>
. Close-up of an avicularium.
<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC33FFBD7A03CBA0FCDBE387" bold="true" box="[839,857,1963,1989]" pageId="9" pageNumber="43">F</emphasis>
. Close-up of zooids with evident spine bases (white arrows). Scale bars: A = 1 mm; B = 500 µm; C, F = 200 µm; D = 60 µm; E = 100 µm.
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Ovicell prominent, globose, roughly as long as wide, with a rounded-quadrate appearance because narrower than frontal shield of underlying zooid, OvL = 272 µm, OvW = 282 µm (N = 1), OvL/ OvW = 0.96; continuous with frontal shield of the distal zooid, obscuring distal margin of orifice (
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); calcification finely granular, smoother than the frontal shield, imperforate except for peripheral row of elliptical marginal areolae (1236 µm, N = 10); peripheral interareolar ridges around margin.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="0D775862BC30FFBE79F9CDDCFE60E5B3" blockId="10.[189,482,471,498]" box="[189,482,471,498]" pageId="10" pageNumber="44">Ancestrula not observed.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="45D20BE9BC30FFBE79F9CE12FC1BE178" pageId="10" pageNumber="44" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="0D775862BC30FFBE79F9CE12FEB2E671" blockId="10.[189,304,537,563]" box="[189,304,537,563]" pageId="10" pageNumber="44">
<heading id="563FEF0EBC30FFBE79F9CE12FEB2E671" bold="true" box="[189,304,537,563]" fontSize="11" level="3" pageId="10" pageNumber="44" reason="3">
<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC30FFBE79F9CE12FEB2E671" bold="true" box="[189,304,537,563]" pageId="10" pageNumber="44">Remarks</emphasis>
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<paragraph id="0D775862BC30FFBE79F9CE4CFAF4E04A" blockId="10.[187,1400,583,1032]" pageId="10" pageNumber="44">
The main features distinguishing
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<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC30FFBE7B13CE43FCB6E623" box="[599,820,583,609]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="44">M. pauciperforata</emphasis>
Chowdhury &amp; Di Martino
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from other congeners of the NE Pacific are the small, distally directed adventitious avicularia, the relatively flat frontal shield, and subordinately the rounded-quadrate ovicell, although we observed only one. In NW Pacific species of
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<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC30FFBE78DDCEBAFDB1E689" box="[409,563,689,715]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="44">Microporella</emphasis>
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with a cribrate ascopore, the avicularium is usually larger [e.g., AvL 92137 µm (112±14 µm, N = 20), AvW 3965 µm (57±7 µm, N = 20) in an unregistered specimen of
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<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC30FFBE799ACEFCFE64E753" box="[222,486,759,785]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="44">Microporella cribrosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from
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measured from SEM image pdt4289 made available by Dr P.D. Taylor; AvL 7191 µm (83±8 µm, N = 5), AvW 3544 µm (40±4 µm, N = 5) in
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<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC30FFBE7DECCF10FAF4E776" box="[1192,1398,794,820]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="44">M. neocribroides</emphasis>
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measured from
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Dick
<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC30FFBE78F7CF35FE6FE715" box="[435,493,829,855]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="44">et al.</emphasis>
2005
</bibRefCitation>
: fig. 19] and directed distolaterally, while the ovicells are globular (e.g.,
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<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC30FFBE79F9CF69FE05E739" box="[189,391,865,891]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="44">M. neocribroides</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="69592593BC30FFBE78CFCF6AFDE8E739" author="Dick M. H. &amp; Ross J. R. P." box="[395,618,865,891]" pageId="10" pageNumber="44" pagination="1 - 133" refId="ref17652" refString="Dick M. H. &amp; Ross J. R. P. 1988. Intertidal Bryozoa (Cheilostomata) of the Kodiak vicinity, Alaska. Occasional Paper, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies 28: 1 - 133." type="journal article" year="1988">Dick &amp; Ross, 1988</bibRefCitation>
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) and pseudoporous (e.g.,
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<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC30FFBE7AD4CF69FB9BE739" box="[912,1049,865,891]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="44">M. cribrosa</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="69592593BC30FFBE7D64CF6AFB42E73E" author="Osburn R. C." box="[1056,1216,865,892]" pageId="10" pageNumber="44" pagination="271 - 611" refId="ref18805" refString="Osburn R. C. 1952. Bryozoa of the Pacific Coast of America, part 2, Cheilostomata - Ascophora. Report of the Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions 14: 271 - 611." type="journal article" year="1952">Osburn, 1952</bibRefCitation>
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) (
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;
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). In addition to the cribrate ascopore,
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<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC30FFBE7A10CF8EFBAFE7DC" box="[852,1069,900,926]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="44">M. pauciperforata</emphasis>
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resembles both
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<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC30FFBE7DA8CF8EFAF4E7DC" box="[1260,1398,900,926]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="44">M. cribrosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC30FFBE79B4CFA3FE3FE783" box="[240,445,935,961]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="44">M. neocribroides</emphasis>
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in having the ascopore close to the proximal margin of the orifice and the latter species in the limited number of pseudopores on the frontal shield. However,
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<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC30FFBE7D7ECFC0FA90E7A6" box="[1082,1298,970,996]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="44">M. pauciperforata</emphasis>
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also has very distinct elliptical marginal areolae all along the lateral margins that are lacking in
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.
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The presence of avicularia located proximolaterally is an unusual feature for
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; this might be induced by the presence of predators and the necessity to repair some boreholes as seen in colonies of
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(Jullien, 1888)
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(see
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Di Martino
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2020
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: fig. 6c).
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The signs of abrasion on the frontal shield seen in some zooids (
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) might be due to the high wave action typical of the intertidal environment in which the colony was found. Similar signs of abrasion and/or dissolution were observed in fossil species of
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from the
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Tamiami Formation (
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Di Martino
<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC30FFBE7815C92AFE0FE178" box="[337,397,1312,1338]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="44">et al.</emphasis>
2019
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). In that case, the cause was unknown.
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<emphasis id="3FBC8470BC30FFBE79F9C969FE77E13E" bold="true" box="[189,501,1378,1404]" pageId="10" pageNumber="44">Distribution and ecology</emphasis>
</heading>
</paragraph>
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Chowdhury &amp; Di Martino
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is only known from a single specimen from
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Head North in
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,
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. The single colony was found encrusting a boulder in a highly exposed intertidal boulder field.
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