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The type specimen of Schizomavella grandiporosa Canu and Bassler, 1925, has been located in the MNHN, Paris, and reveals that this species is closely similar to Schizomavella sarniensis Hayward and Thorpe, 1995. All available material of both species has been studied, including SEM-photographies. Morphometric analysis has been performed using n-MDS and tested with ANOSIM. Results confirm the separation of the two species which are, however, morphologically very similar. The geographic distributions overlap with S. grandiporosa being more southern (northwest Spain–Morocco–Algeria) than S. sarniensis (English Channel–southern Portugal).
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We are grateful to P. Lozouet, J.-L. d’Hondt, J. P. Saint Martin and N. Améziane (MNHN) as well as M. Spencer Jones (NHMUK) for their valuable assistance during our visits and the loan of material. We also wish to thank M. Barreiro (Servizo de Microscopía Electrónica, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) for the SEM photographs. Finally, to the two referees.
This work was supported by the project ‘Fauna Ibérica: Briozoos I (Ctenostomados y Queilostomados Anascos)’ (CGL2006-04167), co-financed by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spanish Government and FEDER.
JS gratefully acknowledges a Synthesys grant (FR-TAF-3988) to visit the MNHN. The synthesys Project (http://www.synthesys.info/) is financed by European Community Research Infrastructure Action under the FP6 ‘Structuring the European Research Area’ Programme.
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Souto, J., Reverter-Gil, O., Fernández-Pulpeiro, E. (2013). Schizomavella grandiporosa and Schizomavella sarniensis: Two Cryptic Species. In: Ernst, A., Schäfer, P., Scholz, J. (eds) Bryozoan Studies 2010. Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences, vol 143. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16411-8_24
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