Family ANTROPORIDAE Vigneaux, 1949

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• Antroporidae Vigneaux, M. 1949. Révision des Bryozoaires néogènes du Bassin d'Aquitaine et essai de classification. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, n.s 28: 1-153 [40].

Introduction

The family Antroporidae was defined by Vigneaux (1949), but has often been assimilated into the Calloporidae. A recent survey of some species by Tilbrook (1998) has justified the separation of the Antroporidae for three genera, Antropora, Parantropora, and Akatopora.

Antropora was discussed by Cook (1968), who noted that the circumtropical and subtropical species-complex 'A. granulifera' required investigation. A. granulifera was reported from the Great Barrier Reef by Ryland & Hayward (1992), but this material was re-examined by Tilbrook (1998), who separated the new genus and species Parantropora penelope for this material and specimens from Fiji.

Diagnosis

Colony encrusting, unilaminar or multilaminar. Autozooid cryptocyst moderately developed, gymnocyst negligible or absent. Spines absent. Avicularia interzooidal, small, and vicarious, large. Ovicells small, cap-like, endozooidal (After Tilbrook, Hayward & Gordon, 2001)

General References

Cook, P.L. 1968. Polyzoa from West Africa. The Malacostega, Part 1. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 16: 113-160

Ryland, J.S. & Hayward, P.J. 1992. Bryozoa from Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 32(1): 223-301

Tilbrook, K.J. 1998. The species of Antropora Norman, 1903 (Bryozoa: Cheilostomatida), with the description of a new genus in the Calloporoidea. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 31: 25-49

Vigneaux, M. 1949. Révision des Bryozoaires néogènes du Bassin d'Aquitaine et essai de classification. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, n.s 28: 1-153

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