Bryozoan Studies 2022

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NINETEENTH INTERNATIONAL BRYOZOOLOGY ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE (DUBLIN, IRELAND, 22-26 AUGUST 2022)

Marcus M. Key, Joanne S. Porter, Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, Marcus M. Key, Joanne S. Porter, Patrick N. Wyse Jackson

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032594873
• eBook ISBN: 9781003811695
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Zoology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Bryozoan Studies 2022 contains nineteen papers presented at the 19th International Conference of the International Bryozoology Association held at Trinity College Dublin in August 2022. Bryozoans are complex and fascinating colonial organisms that range from Cambrian to the present day and which are found in marine and freshwater environments from pole to pole and subtidal to abyssal. Recent tomographic techniques have revolutionised the study of modern and fossil taxa where internal structures are revealed through non-destructive methodologies. Here the internal structure of some Ordovician and Eocene taxa is illustrated through these methods. Phylogenetic studies of bryozoans question the classic classification of the group; here the phylogeny of species from California and Japan is described. Other topics covered are assessments of Recent faunas from Haiti and fossil assemblages from Mexico and the United States. Distributional patterns from the Arctic and New Zealand and the dispersal patterns of bryozoans on rafted pumice and on slipper lobsters are characterised. Further contributions provide descriptions of a rare Permian taxon, clarification of species assigned to the Upper Palaeozoic genus Stenopora, avicularia in Wilbertopora, enigmatic structures in a fenestrate bryozoan, repair structures in trepostomes, and an assessment of skeletonisation in the families of Palaeozoic orders.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Dedication
• Foreword
• List of participants
• Applications for X-ray Tomography/Microscopy of Palaeozoic palaeostome bryozoans
• Species richness and diversity patterns of bryozoans of the Arctic region: spatial variation of bryozoan diversity
• Food for thought: investigating the impacts of feeding regime on the growth and survival of a locally invasive cheilostome bryozoan, Watersipora subatra
• Pennsylvanian bryozoans from the Ixtaltepec Formation, Oaxaca, Mexico
• Bryozoan dispersal using pumice rafting generated by the submarine eruption in the Ogasawara, Japan
• Fouling of the slipper lobster, Scyllarides latus, by cyclostome and ctenostome bryozoans in the Mediterranean Sea off Malta
• Three-dimensional imaging of fossil cheilostome bryozoans in Eocene chert by Synchrotron Radiation Micro-Computed Tomography
• Revision of Japanese Watersipora based on microscopic morphology and molecular data
• A genome-skimmed phylogeny of California cheilostome bryozoans
• Early proliferation of avicularia in the Cretaceous cheilostome bryozoan Wilbertopora: a diversification event guided by ecological exploration
• A review of the species belonging in Stenopora Lonsdale, 1844
• Colony repair strategies in large trepostome bryozoans from the Upper Ordovician (Katian) of the Cincinnati region, USA
• Distribution patterns of shelf bryozoans around southern Aotearoa New Zealand
• A review of contact dependent interactions among bryozoans
• Enigmatic structures in Palaeozoic fenestrate bryozoans: the case of Fenestella sculptilis
• Bryozoans from the Turonian Carlile Shale of the Western Interior Seaway in Kansas, USA
• Shallow coral reef bryozoans of Caracol Bay, Haiti
• Skeletonisation in the stenolaemate bryozoan orders Cryptostomata (Suborder Rhabdomesina) and Trepostomata: the role of the Bryozoan Skeletal Index (BSI) as a taxonomic character
• Volgia (Bryozoa, Cystoporata): a rare occurrence from the Mississippian of Ireland
• Author index