Bathycyclopora suroiti Berning & Harmelin & Bader & Cibio 2017, gen. et sp. nov.

• Main Authors: Berning, Björn, Harmelin, Jean-Georges, Bader, Beate
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Bryozoa; Gymnolaemata; Cheilostomatida; Atlantisinidae; Bathycyclopora; Bathycyclopora suroiti; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3850653

Bathycyclopora suroiti gen. et sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 84D62316-64CF-4429-9610-D8A26DDA83D9 Fig. 12 A–G, Table 12 Diagnosis Bathycyclopora suroiti gen. et sp. nov. differs from the type species B. vibraculata gen. et comb. nov. in having a frontal shield with slightly more pronounced ridges, seven or eight oral spines in non-maternal zooids, distinctly smaller and blunt condyles, a narrower shelf at the distal orifice margin, slightly longer and less spatulate interzooidal avicularia, a distinctly broader ectooecium around the ooecial margin, ooecia that are only slightly wider than long, and an ancestrula with 13 instead of 11 spines. Etymology The species is named after the French research vessel ‘Le Suroît’, and the cruise ‘Suroît Seamount 2’, which aimed at sampling the central North Atlantic seamounts. Material examined Holotype ATLANTIS SMT: 1 ovicellate colony on stylasterid skeleton, Stn 7 (MNHN-IB-2014-73). Paratypes ATLANTIS SMT: 1 ovicellate colony on rock, Stn 6 (MNHN-IB- 2014-74); 2 colonies on stylasterid skeleton, Stn 7 (MNHN-IB- 2014-75); 1 coated colony on stylasterid skeleton, Stn 7 (MNHN- IB- 2014-76); 1 coated colony on stylasterid skeleton, Stn 7 (MNHN-IB- 2014-77); 1 colony on stylasterid skeleton, Stn 7 (OLL 2016/126); 1 colony on stylasterid skeleton, Stn 7 (OLL 2016/148); 1 colony on foraminiferal sandstone, mounted on SEM-stub, sputter-coated, Stn 5 (OLL 2016/149). Other material examined ATLANTIS SMT: 1 colony on biogenic rock, Stn 3 (unregistered MNHN material); 7 colonies on stylasterid skeleton plus 3 colonies on coral skeleton, Stn 7 (unregistered MNHN material); 1 colony on coral, Stn 7 (OLL 2016/150); 1 colony on bioclast, Stn 7 (OLL 2016/151); 14 colonies on stylasterid skeleton, Stn 7 (OLL 2016/152). Description Colony encrusting, unilaminar, multiserial, forming small patches (Fig. 12A). Zooids polygonal, separated by grooves; lateral walls well developed, becoming more extensive distally, gently sloping, with a single basal pore chamber connecting neighbouring ...