A new species of sponge inhabiting barnacle Bryozobia (Archaeobalanidae, Bryozobiinae) in the West Pacific.
This paper describes a new species, Bryozobia rossi sp. n., collected by scuba diving in both Taiwan and Japan. Bryozobia rossi sp. n., a member of the subfamily Bryozobiinae (Ross and Newman 1996), has atria and open end portals and a single irregular basal whorl of portals at the same level as basal hemiportals; this morphology varies from all previously described bryozobiines. According to our review of relevant literature, this is the first reported Bryozobia in the Pacific, and this study is the first to describe the morphology of oral cone, cirri, and penis for the genus Bryozobia.
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan; Doctoral Degree Program in Marine Biotechnology, National Sun Yat-sen University and Academia Sinica, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan.
Meng-Chen
MC
Yu
White Sea Biological Station, Biological Faculty, Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia.
Gregory A
GA
Kolbasov
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan; Doctoral Degree Program in Marine Biotechnology, National Sun Yat-sen University and Academia Sinica, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan.
Benny K K
BK
Chan
Archaeobalanidae; Bryozobiinae; Sponge inhabiting barnacle