Schizoretepora Gregory 1893
Creators: name: Madurell, Teresa
name: Jones, Mary Spencer
name: Zabala, Mikel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Bryozoa
Gymnolaemata
Cheilostomatida
Phidoloporidae
Schizoretepora

description: Key to Schizoretepora species from the Atlanto-Mediterranean region   
1. With spiramen................................................................................................................................... 2  
– Without spiramen.............................................................................................................................. 4  
 2. Branches uniseriate; giant frontal avicularia projecting perpendicular to the sides, longer than the branch width................................................................................................... dentata (Calvet, 1931)   
– Branches bi- or pluriseriate; frontal avicularia shorter than the branch width.................................. 3  
 3. Branches bi- or triseriate; distal ends of the large bilobated peristome converging to form a large circular spiramen............................................................................................ calveti d’Hondt, 1975.   
 – Branches quadri- or pluriseriate; distal ends of the large bilobated peristome converging to form a drop-shaped spiramen.................................................................................. solanderia (Risso, 1826)   
4. Erect vinculariform (or reteporiform) colonies................................................................................ 5  
 – Erect laminate colonies.......................................................................... serratimargo (Hincks, 1886)   
5. Without frontal adventitious avicularia............................................................................................ 6  
– With frontal adventitious avicularia.................................................................................................. 7  
 6. Abfrontal slightly rugose but not tuberculate; frontal slightly rugose (not tuberculate), with low number of pores (2–4); zooids longer (average AzL> 470 mm; min AzL: 320 mm).................................................................................................................................................. imperati (Busk, 1884)   
 – Abfrontal strongly rugose, tuberculate; frontal tuberculate, with higher number of pores (2–5); zooids shorter (average AzL <350 mm; max AzW: 450 mm)............................................................................................................. sp. nov.? (= S. imperati sensu O’Donoghue & de Watteville 1939)   
 7. Frontal adventitious avicularia of two types (oval and almond-like); frontal slightly rugose, with few areolae (2–3); abfrontal smooth or slightly rugose, with adventitious oval avicularia and rare triangular avicularia........................................................................ pungens (Canu & Bassler, 1925)   
– Frontal adventitious avicularia only almond-like with acute end; frontal rugose or nodular, with larger number of areolae (4–5); abfrontal rugose, with abundant triangular adventitious avicularia but lacking oval adventitious avicularia........................................................................................... 8  
 8. Colonies always fenestrate (reteporiform); with large number of abfrontal wide triangular adventitious avicularia; zooids narrower (average AzW <260 mm; max AzL: 380 mm)........................................................................................................................................... aviculifera (Canu & Bassler, 1930)   
 – Colonies branched, but poorly fenestrated (vinculariform); with few sparse thin abfrontal triangular avicularia; zooids wider (average AzW> 330 mm; min AzL: 240 mm......................................................................................................................................... hassi Harmelin, Bitar & Zibrowius, 2007
description: Published as part of Madurell, Teresa, Jones, Mary Spencer & Zabala, Mikel, 2019, Revision of the Genus Schizoretepora (Bryozoa, Cheilostomatida) from the Atlantic-Mediterranean region, pp. 1-33 in European Journal of Taxonomy 536 on page 7, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.536, http://zenodo.org/record/3338009