A new species of sponge inhabiting barnacle Bryozobia (Archaeobalanidae, Bryozobiinae) in the West Pacific

Meng-Chen Yu; Gregory A Kolbasov; Benny K K Chan

doi:10.3897/zookeys.571.6894

A new species of sponge inhabiting barnacle Bryozobia (Archaeobalanidae, Bryozobiinae) in the West Pacific

Zookeys. 2016 Mar 7:(571):1-20. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.571.6894. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Meng-Chen Yu¹, Gregory A Kolbasov², Benny K K Chan¹

Affiliations

¹ 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.
² White Sea Biological Station, Biological Faculty, Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Archaeobalanidae; Bryozobiinae; Sponge inhabiting barnacle.