Rhabdopleura recondita Beli, Cameron & Piraino 2018
- 1. National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Private Bay 14901, Kilbirnie, Wellington 6241, New Zealand
- 2. National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Private Bay 14901, Kilbirnie, Wellington 6241, New Zealand & Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 16 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117558, Singapore
- 3. National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Private Bay 14901, Kilbirnie, Wellington 6241, New Zealand & Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 16 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117558, Singapore & National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Private Bay 14901, Kilbirnie, Wellington 6241, New Zealand & Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore, 2 Conservatory Drive, Singapore 117377, Singapore & National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Private Bay 14901, Kilbirnie, Wellington 6241, New Zealand & Tropical Marine Science Institute, National University of Singapore, 18 Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119227, Singapore & National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Private Bay 14901, Kilbirnie, Wellington 6241, New Zealand
Description
Rhabdopleura recondita Beli, Cameron & Piraino in Beli et al., 2018 (Fig. 5C)
Type locality. Near Tricase Port, Lecce, Italy, 39.8829° N, 18.4055° E, ~ 70 m depth, occurring within zooidal and other cavities of host bryozoans.
Key features. Inception of ringed erect tubes is direct. The creeping portion of the colony is non-tubular, comprising smooth-walled expansions lacking zigzag sutures, within bryozoan zooids; the free pectocaulus is not adherent to the inner-wall of the creeping tube. Septa separating individual zooids were not found. Colonies extend only a few millimetres. Erect tubes with fusellar collars project up to 0.67 mm from bryozoan orifices and holes in dead bryozoan zooids. Fusellus height is 37±11 μm.
Comment. Like R. compacta, colonies of R. recondita are highly distinctive, as well as substratum-limited, and unlikely to be confused with any other species.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Beli, Cameron & Piraino
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Hemichordata
- Order
- Rhabdopleurida
- Family
- Rhabdopleuridae
- Genus
- Rhabdopleura
- Species
- recondita
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rhabdopleura recondita Beli, 2018 sec. Gordon, Quek & Huang, 2024
References
- Beli, E., Aglieri, G., Strano, F., Maggioni, D., Telford, M., Piraino, S. & Cameron, C. B. (2018) The zoogeography of extant rhabdopleurid hemichordates (Pterobranchia: Graptolithina), with a new species from the Mediterranean Sea. Invertebrate Systematics, 32, 100 - 110. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / IS 17021