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Type: Article
Published: 2015-07-31
Page range: 275–282
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A new cheilostome bryozoan genus, Abditoporella (Hippoporidridae), from the eastern Pacific

Posgrado en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (ICML), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), México, DF, México. Laboratorio de Sistemática y Ecologia de Equinodermos, ICML, UNAM, México, DF, México
Laboratório de Estudos de Bryozoa (LAEBry), Departamento de Zoologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil
Laboratorio de Sistemática y Ecologia de Equinodermos, ICML, UNAM, México, DF, México
Bryozoa Mexico new species new combination

Abstract

Abditoporella dimorpha n. gen. et n. sp. is described from the Pacific coast of Mexico. It was previously misidentified as Odontoporella adpressa (Busk). Abditoporella seems to be morphologically related to Hagiosynodos Bishop & Hayward, 1989 in having a similar orifice and pseudoporous frontal shield, but is distinguished by having dimorphic zooids. A second species, Hippopodinella turrita Osburn, is reassigned to the new genus as Abditoporella turrita n. comb. Abditoporella is included in the Hippoporidridae.