TY  - JOUR
A1  - Taylor, Paul D.
A1  - Harmelin, Jean-Georges
A1  - Waeschenbach, Andrea
A1  - Bouchon, Claude
T1  - Disporella guada sp. nov., an erect-ramose rectangulate cyclostome (Bryozoa, Stenolaemata) from the Caribbean Sea: convergent evolution in bryozoan colony morphology
T2  - European journal of taxonomy
N2  - The taxonomy of cyclostome bryozoans is founded on characters of the skeleton, but molecular sequence data have increasingly shown that established higher taxa are not monophyletic. Here we describe the skeletal morphology of a new species from Guadeloupe (French West Indies) with erect ramose colonies consisting of long, curved zooids that are typical of the suborder Cerioporina among living cyclostomes. However, molecular evidence from nuclear ribosomal RNA genes 18S and 28S places the new taxon in the suborder Rectangulata, where this colony-form has not been previously recorded. It nests firmly within the genus Disporella Gray, 1848, in a strongly supported clade that also includes Plagioecia patina (Lamarck, 1816) (Tubuliporina) and the sister taxa Doliocoitis cyanea Gordon & Taylor, 2001 (Rectangulata) and Favosipora rosea Gordon & Taylor, 2001 (Cerioporina). The short and robust branches of the new Guadeloupe cyclostome, here named Disporella guada Harmelin, Taylor & Waeschenbach sp. nov., are well adapted to life in shallow rocky sites exposed to severe wave action, which appear to be its exclusive habitat.
T3  - European journal of taxonomy  : EJT - 773:1-18 
KW  - Lichenoporidae
KW  - growth-form
KW  - taxonomy
KW  - molecular phylogeny
KW  - evolution
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/61669
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-616693
SN  - 2118-9773
VL  - 2021
IS  - 773
SP  - 1
EP  - 18
PB  - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
CY  - Paris
ER  -