Species Diploporella alata (Lamouroux, 1821)

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Species Diploporella alata (Lamouroux, 1821)

Compiler and date details

July 2001 - Dr Philip Bock

Cellepora alata Lamouroux, J.V.F. 1821. Exposition Méthodique des genres de l'Ordre des Polypiers, avec leur Description et celle des Principales espèces, figurées dans 84 planches, les 63 premières appartenant á l'histoire naturelle des zoophytes d'Ellis et Solander. Paris : Agasse, i-viii, fold-out table, 1-115, pls 1-85. [2].
Membranipora transversa Hincks, T. 1880. Contributions towards a general history of the marine Polyzoa. II. Foreign Membraniporina. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 6: 81-92, 376-381 [89].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1899.5.1.653 1 specimen, Western Australia.
Secondary source:
Soule, D.F., Soule,J.D. & Chaney, H.W. 1991. Some little-known genera of Thalamoporellidae: Thairopora, Diploporella, and new genera Marsupioporella and Thalamotreptos. pp. 447-464 in Bigey, F.P., & d'Hondt, J.-L. (eds). Bryozoaires Actuels et Fossiles: Bryozoa Living and Fossil. Bulletin de la Societe des Sciences Naturelles de l'Ouest de la France Mémoire HS 1. Nantes : Société des Sciences Naturelles de l'Ouest de la France. [457].
Membranipora cincta Hutton, F.W. 1878. On some South Australian Polyzoa. Papers of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1877: 23-25 [23].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Harmer, S.F. 1926. The Polyzoa of the Siboga Expedition. Part 2. Cheilostomata Anasca. Siboga-Expéditie Report 28B: 183-501 [289]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Distribution by S.Parker.

Australian Endemic.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Lower E coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Colonial, epiphytic, filter-feeder, sessile, subtidal.

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
25-Mar-2014	BRYOZOA Ehrenberg, 1831	12-Oct-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Robin Wilson (NMV) Elizabeth Greaves (NMV)
		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED

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