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Issue: Vol. 4305 No. 1: 14 Aug. 2017
Type: Monograph
Published: 2017-08-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4305.1.1
Page range: 1–79
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Revision of the Recent species of Exechonella Canu & Bassler in Duvergier, 1924 and Actisecos Canu & Bassler, 1927 (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata): systematics, biogeography and evolutionary trends in skeletal morphology

Departamento de Medio Ambiente, Instituto de Fomento Pesquero, Balmaceda 252, 5502276, Puerto Montt, Chile
Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box, 37012, Washington, DC 20013–7012, USA
Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW, UK
Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Saint Petersburg State University, Universitetskaja nab. 7/9, 199034, Saint Petersburg, Russia Department of Palaeontology, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy, Geozentrum, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A–1090, Vienna, Austria
Bryozoa bryozoans Exechonellidae Actisecidae new species systematics biogeography evolution

Abstract

The present study describes species of Exechonella and Actisecos discovered through the examination of recent collections from the Red Sea, coast of Oman and Maldive Islands (Indian Ocean) and the Lizard Island, Australia (Great Barrier Reef, Coral Sea) in comparison with historical collections. Eight species of Exechonella are redescribed: E. grandis (type species), E. ampullacea, E. antillea, E. brasiliensis, E. erinacea, E. pumicosa, E. spinosa and E. verrucosa. Eighteen new species of Exechonella are also described: E. azeezi n. sp., E. catalinae n. sp., E. californiensis n. sp., E. claereboudti n. sp., E. elegantissima n. sp., E. floridiana n. sp., E. harmelini n. sp., E. kleemanni n. sp., E. maldiviensis n. sp. E. nikitai n. sp., E. panamensis n. sp., E. reniporosa n. sp., E. rimopora n. sp., E. safagaensis n. sp., E. similis n. sp., E. variperforata n. sp. E. vavrai n. sp. and E. vieirai n. sp. The species studied were grouped in five species complexes. Additionally, two species from the genus Actisecos—A. regularis and A. discoidea were redescribed. The current revision highlights a number of important taxonomical, biogeographical and morphological questions that are of the general biological interest. Among thеm is a polyphyletic nature of Cheilostomata possessing umbonuloid frontal shield.

 

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