Nellia tenella , Onychocella
Creators
- 1. National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, Department of Historical Geology and Paleontology 15784, Athens (Greece) and CR 2 P (CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, Sorbonne Université), Département Origines et Évolution, UMR 7207, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, case postale 38, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France)
- 2. National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment Department of Historical Geology & Paleontology, 15784, Athens (Greece)
- 3. Géosciences Montpellier, Université de Montpellier Université des Antilles, CNRS, Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe, FWI (France)
Description
Nellia tenella (Lamarck, 1816)
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Cellaria tenella Lamarck, 1816: 135.
Nellia oculata – Busk 1852: 18, pl. 64, fig. 6; pl. 65 (bis), fig. 4. — Moissette et al. 1993: 98, fig.5i. — Moissette 1997: 192, pl. 2, figs 5-6.
Nellia tenella – Ziko et al. 2016: 18, pl. 2, fig. 6.
OCCURRENCE. — Eocene: UK, France, Italy, Germany, Romania (Braga 2008). Oligocene: USA, Malta, Libya (El Safori & Muftah 2007), UAE (Braga & Bahr 2003). Early Miocene: USA (Di Martino et al. 2017), Dominican Republic, France, Portugal, Egypt (El Safori & El-Sorogy 1999). Middle Miocene: Jamaica, Hungary (Moissette et al. 2006), Austria, France, Portugal, Egypt (Ziko et al. 2016). Late Miocene: Morocco (El Hajjaji 1992), Algeria (Moissette 1988), Crete, Turkey, Tunisia (Moissette 1997). Pliocene: Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic, Jamaica (Taylor & Foster 1998; Cheetham et al. 1999). Pleistocene: Rhodes (PM, pers. obs.). Recent: eastern and western Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Pacific. This species is widely distributed in tropical to subtropical waters around the world. It lives at depths between 0 and 250 m (Fransen 1986).
DESCRIPTION
Colony cellariiform. Internodes straight with quadrangular section and elongate zooids separated by shallow grooves. Opesia oval, occupying the greatest part of the zooidal frontal wall. Gymnocyst and cryptocyst well-developed proximally. Two small avicularia occur on the proximal part of the gymnocyst. Ovicells not observed.
REMARKS
Nellia oculata Busk is now regarded as a junior synonym of N. tenella (Lamarck). However, their very broad ecological, geographical and stratigraphical records may indicate either a ’’living fossil’’ species or a “cryptic species complex” (Winston et al. 2014; Di Martino et al. 2017).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- , Onychocella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Bryozoa
- Order
- Cyclostomatida
- Family
- Crisiidae
- Genus
- Nellia
- Species
- tenella
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nellia tenella (Lamarck, 1816) sec. Moissette, Antonarakou, Kontakiotis, Cornée & Karakitsios, 2021
References
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- BUSK G. 1852. - Catalogue of the Marine Polyzoa in the British Museum. Pt. I. Cheilostomata (part). London: 1 - 54. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 18304571
- MOISSETTE P., DELRIEU B. & TSAGARIS S. 1993. - Bryozoaires du bassin neogene d'Heraklion (Crete centrale, Grece). Le Miocene superieur: premiers resultats. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen 190: 75 - 123.
- MOISSETTE P. 1997. - Bryozoaires recoltes dans les unites messiniennes de sondages offshore dans le golfe de Gabes (Tunisie). Revue de Micropaleontologie 40: 181 - 203. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / S 0035 - 1598 (97) 90554 - 7
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- TAYLOR P. D. & FOSTER T. S. 1998. - Bryozoans from the Pliocene Bowden shell bed of Jamaica. Contributions to Tertiary and Quaternary Geology 35: 63 - 83.
- CHEETHAM A. H., JACKSON J. B. C., SANNER J., VENTOCILLA Y. 1999. - Neogene cheilostome Bryozoa of tropical America: Comparison and contrast between the Central American isthmus (Panama, Costa Rica) and the North-Central Caribbean (Dominican Republic), in COLLINS L. S. & COATES A. G. (eds), A paleobiotic survey of caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the isthmus of Panama. Bulletins of American Paleontology 357: 159 - 192.
- FRANSEN C. H. J. M. 1986. - Caribbean Bryozoa: Anasca and Ascophora imperfecta of the inner bays of Curacao and Bonaire. Studies on the fauna of Curacao and other Caribbean Islands 210: 1 - 119. https: // repository. naturalis. nl / pub / 506057
- WINSTON J. E., VIEIRA L. M. & WOOLLACOTT R. M. 2014. - Scientific Results of the Hassler Expedition. Bryozoa. No. 2. Brazil. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 161: 139 - 239. https: // doi. org / 10.3099 / MCZ 14.1