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1 February 2011 Cribrimorph and Other Cauloramphus Species (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) from the Northwestern Pacific
Matthew H. Dick, Shunsuke F. Mawatari, JoAnn Sanner, Andrei V. Grischenko
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Abstract

We provide original descriptions for nine new species in the cheilostome bryozoan genus Cauloramphus (C. gracilis, C. Ordinarius, C. amphidisjunctus, C. cheliferoides, C. oshurkovi, C. infensus, C. parvus, C. peltatus, and C. ascofer) and a redescription of C. disjunctus Canu and Bassler, 1929. We delineate a group of eight species, here termed the ‘C. disjunctus clade,’ that have the opesial spine joints calcified to a greater or lesser extent in mature zooids; most also have paired, hypertrophied avicularia. This group includes C. amphidisjunctus, C. cheliferoides, C. infensus, C. parvus, C. peltatus, and C. ascofer in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska; C. oshurkovi in the Commander Islands; and C. disjunctus in Japan. High levels of apparent endemism in two unrelated bryozoan genera (Cauloramphus and Monoporella), and geographical population differentiation in C. ascofer indicating ongoing allopatric speciation, suggest high speciation rates for deep benthic bryozoans in the western Aleutians. A phylogenetic hypothesis for the C. disjunctus clade indicates that populations of Cauloramphus dispersed between the Aleutians and Asia on at least three separate occasions, and that the polarity of at least two of these dispersal events was from the Aleutians to Asia.

© 2011 Zoological Society of Japan
Matthew H. Dick, Shunsuke F. Mawatari, JoAnn Sanner, and Andrei V. Grischenko "Cribrimorph and Other Cauloramphus Species (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) from the Northwestern Pacific," Zoological Science 28(2), 134-147, (1 February 2011). https://doi.org/10.2108/ZSJ.28.134
Received: 2 April 2010; Accepted: 1 July 2010; Published: 1 February 2011
KEYWORDS
Bryozoa
Cauloramphus
Cheilostomata
disjunctus clade
dispersal
diversity
new species
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