Gephyrotes nitidopunctatus Smitt 1868 ...

• Main Authors: Martino, Emanuela Di, Rosso, Antonietta
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Bryozoa; Gymnolaemata; Cheilostomatida; Cribrilinidae; Gephyrotes; Gephyrotes nitidopunctatus; Hayward; Norway; Finnmark; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6101456; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6101456

Gephyrotes nitidopunctatus (Smitt, 1868) (Figs 2–8; Table 1) Escharipora figularis forma nitido-punctata Smitt 1868: 4, pl. 24, figs 2–3. Cribrilina nitidopunctata: Smitt 1873: 22; Levinsen 1909: 159; Waters 1923: 564, pl. 18, figs 4–5; 1926: 438; Ryland 1963: 4. Gephyrotes nitidopunctata: Norman 1903: 101, pl. 8, figs 12–13; Nordgaard 1906: 84, pl. 1, fig. 7; 1917: 50; Canu & Bassler 1920: 300, figs 81E, 85; 1929: 109, fig. 25; Lang 1922: 25, fig. 9; Prenant & Bobin 1966: 585, fig. 203; Kluge 1975: 468, fig. 246; Hayward & Ryland 1998: 316, fig. 111. Material examined. Holotype: SMNH 1770, Recent, Finnmark, northern Norway, encrusting a stone. Description. Colony unilaminar, multiserial, forming small irregular patch (Fig. 2). Ancestrula not observed; early autozooids similar to later ones but smaller (Fig. 2). Autozooids distinct, with deep interzooidal furrows, oval (mean L/W = 1.67), longer than broad. Gymnocyst smooth, narrow laterally, more extensive proximally; sometimes long 'tails' of ... : Published as part of Martino, Emanuela Di & Rosso, Antonietta, 2015, Revision of the bryozoan genus Gephyrotes Norman, 1903 (Cheilostomata, Cribrilinidae) with the description of two new taxa, pp. 261-283 in Zootaxa 3941 (2) on pages 263-265, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3941.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/253825 ...