Sebastian Pascal, Cumming Robyn L
College of Marine and Environmental Science, James Cook University, 1 James Cook Drive, Townsville Queensland, 4814, Australia.; Email:
Museum of Tropical Queensland, 70-102 Flinders Street, Townsville, Queensland, 4810, Australia; Email: unknown.
Zootaxa. 2016 Feb 15;4079(4):467-79. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4079.4.6.
The cheilostome bryozoans Calyptotheca wulguru n. sp. and Calyptotheca tilbrooki n. sp. (Lanceoporidae) are described from inter-reefal, sediment-dominated habitats of the Great Barrier Reef, and Calyptotheca churro n. sp. was washed up on a Heron Island beach, with uncertain origin. Calyptotheca wulguru n. sp. and C. churro n. sp. belong to a subgroup of Calyptotheca species with numerous small, oval, marginal adventitious avicularia and suboral nodular thickening or umbones. The vicarious avicularia of C. tilbrooki n. sp. are elongate-oval, unlike those of other known Calyptotheca species, and C. tilbrooki n. sp. has more pronounced orificial dimorphism than in any other known Calyptotheca species. Calyptotheca churro n. sp. has the most pronounced suboral umbo of all known Calyptotheca species. This study increases the known Calyptotheca species of the Great Barrier Reef to ten, and of tropical Australia to 14.
唇口目苔藓虫类的武格鲁卡利普托苔藓虫新种(Calyptotheca wulguru n. sp.)和蒂尔布鲁克卡利普托苔藓虫新种(Calyptotheca tilbrooki n. sp.)(兰氏苔藓虫科)是从大堡礁礁间、以沉积物为主的栖息地描述的,而楚罗卡利普托苔藓虫新种(Calyptotheca churro n. sp.)被冲上海滩,来源不明。武格鲁卡利普托苔藓虫新种和楚罗卡利普托苔藓虫新种属于卡利普托苔藓虫物种的一个亚组,具有众多小的、椭圆形的边缘偶生鸟头体以及口下结节增厚或隆凸。蒂尔布鲁克卡利普托苔藓虫新种的替代鸟头体呈长椭圆形,与其他已知卡利普托苔藓虫物种不同,并且蒂尔布鲁克卡利普托苔藓虫新种具有比其他任何已知卡利普托苔藓虫物种更明显的口部二态性。楚罗卡利普托苔藓虫新种具有所有已知卡利普托苔藓虫物种中最明显的口下隆凸。本研究将大堡礁已知的卡利普托苔藓虫物种增加到10种,将热带澳大利亚的该物种增加到14种。