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MICROPORELLA CORONATA Savigny-Audouin, 1826 



Plate 40, fig. 1 



1826. Flustra coronata Savigny-Audouin, Description de l'Egypte, p. 239, pi. 9, 



fig. 6. 

 1881. Lepralia lunifera Haswell, Polyzoa from Queensland Coast, Proc. 



Linnean Society New South Wales, vol. 5, p. 40. 

 1887. Lepralia ciliata var. Waters, Bryozoa from New South Wales, Annals 



and Magazine Natural History, ser. 5, vol. 20, p. 188. 

 1907. Microporella coronata Wales, Bryozoa of the Sudanese Red Sea, Journal 



Linnean Society Zoology, vol. 31, p. 142, pi. 12, figs. 6-9 (opercula, 



mandible) . 

 1909. Microporella coronata Norman, Polyzoa of Madeira, Journal Linnean 



Society, Zoology, vol. 30, p. 297, pi. 39, fig. 4. 

 1925. Microporella coronata Canu and Bassler, Les Bryozoaires du Maroc et 



de Mauritanie (Mem. 1), Memoires de la Societe des Sciences du Maroc, 



vol. 10, p. 37, pi. 3, figs. 4. 

 1928. Microporella coronata Canu and Bassler, Les Bryozoaires du Maroc et de 



Mauritanie, mem. 2, p. 39. 



Waters identified this species with Microporella calif ornica Busk, 

 1852, but we are not certain of the exactitude of this synonymy. 

 Our specimens were dead; they bear 4 to 6 spines. 



Occurrence.— T>. 5478. Tacbuc Point, Leyte; 10° 46' 24" N.; 125° 

 16' 30" E.; 57 fathoms; Sh. 



Geologic distribution. — Pacific; Holborn Island, Queensland, Has- 

 well and Sydney (Waters). Red Sea; Suez docks and Gimsah Bay 

 (Waters). Atlantic; Madeira (Norman). 



Plesiotypes — -Cat. No. 8107, U.S.N.M. 



MICROPORELLA LINEATA, new species 



Plate 40, fig. 5 



Description. — The zoarium encrusts a black pebble. The zooecia 

 are arranged in uniserial and linear rows; they are elongated, 

 elliptical; the frontal is convex and ornamented with a large number 

 of small tremopores; the ascopore is little removed from the aperture, 

 orbicular surrounded by a salient peristome. The apertura is semi- 

 elliptical, transverse; the peristome is salient and bears 6 hollow 

 spines. There is a marginal avicularium placed below the ascopore. 



Measurements. — 



. f7ia = 0.07mm. „ . fZz=0.80mm. 



Apertura 7 . , , Zooecia 7 A _ n 



I la = 0.11 mm. [Iz =0.50 mm. 



Occurrence. — D. 5217. Anima Sola Island, between Burias and 

 Luzon; 13° 20' N.; 123° 14' 15" E.; 105 fathoms; crs. gy. S.; 17.2° C. 

 Holotype— Cat. No. 8108, U.S.N.M. 



