Calloporina Neviani, 1895

Berning, Björn, 2012, Taxonomic notes on some Cheilostomata (Bryozoa) from Madeira, Zootaxa 3236, pp. 36-54 : 39-40

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.211022

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Calloporina Neviani, 1895
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Genus Calloporina Neviani, 1895 View in CoL

Calloporina Neviani, 1895: 234 View in CoL ; Gordon 1984: 104; Zabala & Maluquer 1988: 137; Tilbrook 2006: 213; Zágoršek 2010: 156 View Cited Treatment (among others).

Type species: Cellepora decorata Reuss, 1847 .

Diagnosis (amended). Colony encrusting. Zooidal frontal shield imperforate apart from a suboral ascopore and lateral areolar pores. Basal pore-chambers large and distinct. Primary orifice semicircular with small condyles in the proximolateral corners, oral spines present. Ovicell hyperstomial, with a completely calcified endooecium separated from a crescentic band of pitted ectooecial calcification by a series of slit-like pseudopores that lead into the intermediate coelomic lumen, ovicell opening not closed by the operculum. Avicularia adventitious with acute mandibles. Ancestrula tatiform with well-developed proximal gymnocyst.

Remarks. The genus Calloporina was introduced for the Miocene Paratethyan species Cellepora decorata Reuss, 1847 , which was considered to be extant, albeit rare, in the Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic. All Calloporina specimens from these regions have been recorded under this name ever since Hincks (1880) reported the species from Madeira (as Microporella decorata ). However, even in the absence of SEM images and precise descriptions, a superficial examination of some of these specimens suggests that, apart from the species introduced here, at least one more species is present today (see below). Nevertheless, the new species still represents one of the very few records of this genus in the northern hemisphere, as most taxa are known from the Southern Hemisphere and particularly from Australasia. The Neogene occurrences in regions as far apart as Japan, Australia and the Paratethys region suggest an evolutionary history of Calloporina reaching back into the Paleogene.

In the most recent generic diagnosis, Gordon (1984: 104) stated that the crescentic exposure in the ooecium is made of endooecium. Judging by the sequence of stages in ooecium formation ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 6 – 11 ), the smooth but pitted crescent may rather be formed by the ectooecium, whereas the endooecium seemingly produces the central part with the rugose surface. However, in order to fully understand its formation and structure, analysis of living specimens is necessary (A. Ostrovsky, pers. comm. 2011).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Bryozoa

Class

Gymnolaemata

Order

Cheilostomatida

Family

Microporellidae

Loc

Calloporina Neviani, 1895

Berning, Björn 2012
2012
Loc

Calloporina

Zagorsek 2010: 156
Tilbrook 2006: 213
Zabala 1988: 137
Gordon 1984: 104
Neviani 1895: 234
1895
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