Fenestrulina multiflorum Figuerola & Gordon & Cristobo 2018, n. sp. ...

• Main Authors: Figuerola, Blanca, Gordon, Dennis P., Cristobo, Javier
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Bryozoa; Gymnolaemata; Cheilostomatida; Microporellidae; Fenestrulina; Fenestrulina multiflorum; Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5962049; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5962049

Fenestrulina multiflorum n. sp. (FIg. 15; TAbLE 17) Etymology. LATIN ‘ multi- ’, MORE THAN ONE, AND ‘ flΟs ’, FLOWER, ALLUDINg TO THE LARgE FLOWER-LIKE PORES. Material examined. HΟlΟtype: CRBA-58233, STN PAT0209DR05, COLONY C. 10 MM LONg, 2 MM WIDE, ENCRUSTINg CORAL. Description. COLONY FORMINg ENCRUSTINg PATCHES; COLONY SIZE AbOUT 10 MM LONg bY 2 MM WIDE. AUTOZOOIDS ELONgATE-OVAL TO HEXAgONAL, CONVEX, SEPARATED bY DEEP, WIDE gROOVES, WITH THE VERTICAL WALLS OF EACH AUTOZOOID FORMINg A bORDER TO THE FRONTAL WALL; UNCALCIFIED WINDOW IN THE bASAL WALLS. FRONTAL SHIELD WITH NUMEROUS LARgE, CLOSELY SPACED, STELLATE PORES OVER ITS WHOLE SURFACE, AND WITH A SINgLE SERIES bETWEEN THE ORIFICE AND THE ASCOPORE. PRIMARY ORIFICE WIDER THAN LONg. FOUR OR FIVE SLENDER ORAL SPINES. ASCOPORE SEPARATED FROM THE ORIFICE bY A DISTANCE ALMOST EqUIVALENT TO THE ORIFICE LENgTH; NARROWLY OVAL, FINELY DENTICULATE. OVICELL gLObOSE, SURFACE CORRUgATED. Remarks. THIS gENUS IS DIVERSE IN ANTARCTIC AND SUbANTARCTIC SOUTH ATLANTIC ... : Published as part of Figuerola, Blanca, Gordon, Dennis P. & Cristobo, Javier, 2018, New deep Cheilostomata (Bryozoa) species from the Southwestern Atlantic: shedding light in the dark, pp. 211-249 in Zootaxa 4375 (2) on pages 234-236, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4375.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/1298290 ...