Tapajosella elongata Wood & Okamura 2017
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Biological Sciences, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435 USA. & Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW 7 5 BD UK.
- 2. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW 7 5 BD UK.
Description
Tapajosella elongata Wood & Okamura, 2017
Material examined. Statoblasts from the Río Negro, 13 km NW of Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil, 3° 0.099’ S, 60° 5.623’ W (Site 7), collected 6 May 2018 by T. Wood and B. Okamura.
Remarks. The slender statoblasts of this species, previously seen only in January, 2016 near Santarém (Wood & Okamura 2017), were encountered for the first time in the Río Negro near Manaus. While many appeared to be intact, they contained no living material. The canoe-like shape of these statoblasts is so unique that the species has been placed in its own family, Tapajosellidae. While colonies have not yet been found, the occurrence of statoblasts in a different season and in a new location suggests that they may be a constant presence in the Amazon.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- T
- Event date
- 2018-05-06
- Verbatim event date
- 2018-05-06
- Scientific name authorship
- Wood & Okamura
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Bryozoa
- Order
- Plumatellida
- Family
- Tapajosellidae
- Genus
- Tapajosella
- Species
- elongata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tapajosella elongata Wood, 2017 sec. Wood & Okamura, 2022
References
- Wood, T. S. & Okamura, B. (2017) Four new species and two range extensions for freshwater bryozoans in Brazil: the tip of the iceberg? Zootaxa, 4306 (3), 383 - 400. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4306.3.5