Turbicellepora hansenae Denisenko, 2016, sp. n. ...

• Main Author: Denisenko, Nina V.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Bryozoa; Gymnolaemata; Cheilostomatida; Celleporidae; Turbicellepora; Turbicellepora hansenae; Greenland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6091410; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6091410

Turbicellepora hansenae sp. n. (Fig. 2 a–g) Material examined. Holotype: ZMUC-BRY-104, fragment of colony, collected by a Canadian expedition research vessel, the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Martha Black at 60°22.3' N, 48°22.19' W, 886–932 m, March 2012. Etymology. Honorific for the late Danish bryozoologist Karen Emilie Bille Hansen (6 May 1919 – 27 December 2010). Description. Colonies somewhat irregular and nodular, slightly yellowish, comprising 30 x 40 mm in size. Zooids semi-vertical in colony, highly distinct owing to deep interzooidal furrows (Fig. 2 a, b), of variable size (0.7–1.0 x 0.5–0.7 mm (Table 1). Frontal shield thick, smooth, with even slope and sparse marginal pores (Fig. 2 c, d). Primary orifice transversely suboval, wider than high with fairly deep wide U-shaped sinus with sloping sides occupying much of proximal border (Fig. 2, b). Peristome of moderate height, rounded, asymmetrical, partly concealing primary orifice (Fig. 2b, d). Oral avicularia 1–2, relatively large, with triangular ... : Published as part of Denisenko, Nina V., 2016, Two new species of the genus Turbicellepora Ryland, 1963 (Bryozoa: Celleporidae) found on Lophelia coral from the Greenland slope, pp. 177-182 in Zootaxa 4066 (2) on pages 179-180, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4066.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/255455 ...