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Lophopodella

Lophopodella

Rousselet, 1904

GBIF:119384679

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Diagnosis. Colony lobed, soft and gelatinous; tubes dichotomously branching. Only floatoblasts are known; oval, with wide, flat annulus; some species have one to several spines with small hooks at both ends of the annulus.
Hirose, Masato, Mawatari, Shunsuke F. (2011): Freshwater Bryozoa of Okinawa, Japan, with descriptions of Rumarcanella gen. nov. (Phylactolaemata: Plumatellidae) and two new species. Zootaxa 2732: 1-19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.276554
Type species. Lophopodella thomasi Rousselet, 1904.
Hirose, Masato, Mawatari, Shunsuke F. (2011): Freshwater Bryozoa of Okinawa, Japan, with descriptions of Rumarcanella gen. nov. (Phylactolaemata: Plumatellidae) and two new species. Zootaxa 2732: 1-19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.276554

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AnimaliaBryozoaPhylactolaemataPlumatellidaLophopodidaeLophopodella

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Freshwater Bryozoa of Okinawa, Japan, with descriptions of Rumarcanella gen. nov. (Phylactolaemata: Plumatellidae) and two new species

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Hirose, Masato, Mawatari, Shunsuke F. (2011): Freshwater Bryozoa of Okinawa, Japan, with descriptions of Rumarcanella gen. nov. (Phylactolaemata: Plumatellidae) and two new species. Zootaxa 2732: 1-19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.276554

Abstract

We identified nine species of phylactolaemate bryozoans collected from ponds and dams on Okinawa Island, Japan. This is the first report on freshwater bryozoans from Okinawa and includes the first record of Plumatella javanica from Japan. Phylactolaemate species were identified on the basis of colony and statoblast morphology and are illustrated by light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). We detected two new plumatellid species that, like Plumatella minuta and Plumatella vorstmani, have a transparent, weakly chitinized colony and hypertubercles on the floatoblast fenestra. A previous molecular study showed these four species to form a clade separate from Plumatella and Hyalinella. We here establish the new genus Rumarcanella to accommodate these species and describe Rumarcanella gusuku n. sp. and R. yanbaruensis n. sp. We discuss the dispersal of bryozoans to and from Japan by birds carrying statoblasts and provide a key to the Phylactolaemata of Japan.

Key words: Freshwater Bryozoa, new species, Okinawa, Phylactolaemata, Plumatellidae, Rumarcanella gusuku, Rumarcanella yanbaruensis, Rumarcanella minuta, Rumarcanella vorstmani

Hirose M, Mawatari S F, plazi (2011). Freshwater Bryozoa of Okinawa, Japan, with descriptions of Rumarcanella gen. nov. (Phylactolaemata: Plumatellidae) and two new species. Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.276554 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-14.

CC0Published 12/31/2011View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
119384679
Dataset Key
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1003645
Taxon ID
03CE87FEFF96FFE43FDAFEEBFA87F20C.taxon
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Last Interpreted
6/11/2026
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