Bugulina flabellata (Thompson in Gray, 1848 )

López-Gappa, Juan, Liuzzi, María G., Castro, Karen L., Bobinac, Magalí & Schwindt, Evangelina, 2022, Fouling bryozoans in Argentine harbours (Southwest Atlantic): new records and the description of a new species, Zootaxa 5205 (4), pp. 374-400 : 382

Bugulina flabellata (Thompson in Gray, 1848)

( Fig. 16 )

Bugula flabellata : Ryland, 1960: 82, figs 2A, B, 9A–C, pl. 2 A, D; Lichtschein de Bastida & Bastida 1980: 381, fig. 7; Gordon & Mawatari, 1992: 21, pl. 5E; Hayward & Ryland, 1998: 216, fig. 66; De Blauwe 2009: 220, figs 218–220.

Material examined. MACN-In 43876, Comodoro Rivadavia harbour, April 25, 2019, collected by Mariana Abelando.

Description. See Lichtschein de Bastida & Bastida (1980).

Distribution. Widely distributed in warm and temperate waters of both hemispheres ( Gordon & Mawatari 1992). Its presence in Brazil, however, has been regarded as doubtful ( Vieira et al. 2008). Its local distribution includes Mar del Plata, Belgrano ( Lichtschein de Bastida & Bastida 1980) and Comodoro Rivadavia (this study) harbours.

Figures

FIGURES 12–17. FIGURES 12–14. Callopora dumerilii (MACN-In 43874); 12, general aspect; 13, ovicelled zooids; 14, detail of zooid and avicularium. FIGURE 15. Bugula neritina, general aspect (MACN-In 43875). FIGURE 16. Bugulina flabellata, general aspect (MACN-In 43876). FIGURE 17. Bicellariella edentata, general aspect (MACN-In 32310). Scale bars. 12, 15, 17: 200 µm; 13, 14: 100 µm; 16: 300 µm.