Macropora MacGillivray, 1895

Type species: Macropora centralis MacGillivray, 1895 (?=Lepralia grandis Hutton, 1873)

Synonyms Author Type Species
Macroporella Uttley, 1949 Macroporella waimatukuensis Uttley, 1949
Macroporina Uttley, 1949 Macroporina retusa Uttley, 1949

Colony uniserial or pluriserial. If pluriserial, encrusting or erect; unilaminar, bilaminar foliaceous or plurilaminar by self overgrowth. Zooids large and convex. Frontal wall extensive, calcified, rugose and perforate by pseudopores which serve as opesiules. Orifice D-shaped, with a distal oral shelf (vestibular arch) under the operculum. Operculum calcified and thick. Heterozooidal gynozooids may be present. Ovicell subimmersed usually recumbent, the zooid it overlies being restricted, in many cases having no room to develop either a polypide, or orifice and operculum and thus is a kenozooid. The ovicell is closed by the operculum of the maternal zooid, which has two positions of closure: an upper one for the ovicell and, below this, a position for the zooid. Avicularia may exist, similar in size and aspect to an autozooid, but differing in their orifices that are roughly square or rectangular in shape, usually with external denticles in their distal edge and acute teeth directed downwards, not visible when the orifice is closed. Oral spines present either in the avicularia, the autozooids, or both. If both zooidal types have oral spines, those of the avicularia are usually longer and thicker. Avicularia with oral spines have always one spine more than the mandibles have denticles. Interzooidal communication by basal pore chambers (dietellae), usually three (one distal and two distolateral) produced by each zooid, sometimes divided into secondary chambers. (Lopez de la Cuadra & Garcia Gomez, 1997).

This genus includes the species:

  1. Macropora africana
    		2. Hayward & Cook, 1983 Recent S. Africa WoRMS 471878
  2. Macropora antarctica
    		3.  Hara, 2002 Eocene Antarctica Seymour I. WoRMS 1404774
  3. Macropora? aquiae
    		4.  Canu & Bassler, 1920 Paleogene Paleocene Thanetian? USA Maryland WoRMS 1404775
  4. Macropora browni
    		5. de la Cuadra & Garcia-Gomez, 1997 Recent New Zealand WoRMS 471882
  5. Macropora bullata
    		6.  Gordon & Taylor, 2008 Paleogene Eocene Priabonian New Zealand WoRMS 471889
  6. Macropora carlosi
    		7.  Gordon & Taylor, 2008 Recent Pacific southwest Norfolk Ridge WoRMS 468279
  7. Macropora centralis
    		8. MacGillivray, 1895 Miocene Australia WoRMS 1404776
  8. Macropora cribrilifera
    		9. Maplestone, 1901 Neogene Miocene Australia WoRMS 1404777
  9. Macropora? cuniformis
    		10.  (Brydone, 1909) Late Cretaceous Campanian England WoRMS 471890
  10. Macropora filifera
    		11.  Gordon & Taylor, 2008 Recent New Zealand WoRMS 468280
  11. Macropora georgiensis
    		12. de la Cuadra & Garcia-Gomez, 1997 Recent S. Atlantic WoRMS 471883
  12. Macropora grandis
    		13. (Hutton, 1873) Recent
    Tertiary    		 New Zealand
    New Zealand, Australia?    		 WoRMS 471877
  13. Macropora leeae
    		14.  Gordon & Taylor, 2008 Paleogene Oligocene Rupelian New Zealand WoRMS 471888
  14. Macropora levinseni
    		15. Brown, 1952 Tertiary New Zealand WoRMS 471879
  15. Macropora mawatariorum
    		16.  Gordon & Taylor, 2008 Recent Japan WoRMS 468281
  16. Macropora nodulosa
    		17.  Gordon & Taylor, 2008 Recent New Zealand WoRMS 468282
  17. Macropora operculata
    		18. (Canu, 1908) Tertiary Argentina WoRMS 1411951
  18. Macropora pittensis
    		19.  Gordon & Taylor, 2008 Neogene Pliocene Zanclean-Piacenzian New Zealand Chatham Islands WoRMS 471887
  19. Macropora polymorpha
    		20. (Philipps, 1899) Recent Lifu, New Caledonia WoRMS 471880
  20. Macropora quadriseriata
    		21. Canu & Bassler, 1935 Tertiary Australia WoRMS 1404778
  21. Macropora retusa
    		22. (Uttley, 1949) Oligocene New Zealand WoRMS 1411952
  22. Macropora septispinosa
    		23.  Gordon & Taylor, 2008 Neogene Miocene Burdigalian-Aquitanian New Zealand WoRMS 471885
  23. Macropora similis
    		24.  Gordon & Taylor, 2008 Neogene Pliocene New Zealand WoRMS 471886
  24. Macropora spinifera
    		25. (Philipps, 1899) Recent Lifu, New Caledonia WoRMS 471881
  25. Macropora trisinuata
    		26. (Uttley, 1949) Oligocene New Zealand WoRMS 1411953
  26. Macropora uttleyi
    		27. de la Cuadra & Garcia-Gomez, 1997 Recent New Zealand WoRMS 471884
  27. Macropora waimatukensis
    		28. (Uttley, 1949) Oligocene New Zealand WoRMS 1411954
Macropora centralis Macropora cribrilifera

Harmer notebook - entry for Macropora

References:

Banta, William C., Gray, Natasha, & Gordon, Dennis P., 1997. A cryptocystal operculum and a new method of lophophore protrusion in the cheilostome bryozoan Macropora levinseni.
Invertebrate Biology, 116:161-170.

López de la Cuadra, Carlos-Maria, & García-Gómez, Jos-Carlos 1997. Studies on Recent Macroporidae (Bryozoa, Cheilostomatida), with new taxa and ontogeny of the ovicells.
Journal of zoology, London, 242:605-621.

Gordon, Dennis P. & Taylor, Paul D., 2008. Systematics of the bryozoan genus Macropora (Cheilostomata).
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153 (1): 115-146. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00386.x

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