Freshwater Bryozoa of Lake Biwa, Japan

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  • Hirose Masato
    Department of Natural History Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University
  • Mawatari Shunsuke F.
    Department of Natural History Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University

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Twelve species of bryozoan (ten phylactolaemates and two ctenostomes) were collected in Lake Biwa and the nearby satellite lakes. Phylactolaemate species were identified by statoblast morphology, and ctenostome species by colony morphology. Fredericellids were the most abundant phylactolaemates in Lake Biwa. Many colonies of Fredericella indica Annandale, 1909, identified by piptoblast morphology, were found in the southern part of the lake. In this genus, only Fredericella sultana (Blumenbach, 1779) had been previously reported from Japan; this is the first report of F. indica. A species of Fredericella having piptoblasts with a tiny, membrane-like ridge at the margin of the valves and weak reticulation on the surface was found in dredge material from the northern part of Lake Biwa; this species is herein described as a new species, Fredericella toriumii. The plumatellid Plumatella fungosa Pallas, 1768 represents an additional new record for Japan. An encrusting ctenostome was identified as a new species, Hislopia prolixa, on the basis of zooid size and morphology, tentacle number, budding pattern, and gut morphology. Hislopia prolixa was also collected from various other localities in Japan. The gut morphology reconstructed in 3D images, zooid morphology, and budding pattern are compared between H. prolixa and several other species of Hislopia. The gut of H. prolixa is larger and the gizzard wall is thicker than in two other species. The budding pattern is similar to that of H. malayensis Annandale, 1916, but accelerated relative to two other species; young buds are already beginning to form the next generation of bud. Some colonies of H. prolixa had many ovaries; the average number was 40 per zooid. Colony morphology suggests that H. prolixa is more closely related to H. cambodgiensis (Jullien, 1880) than to H. natans Woods, Anurakpongsatorn and Mahujchariyawong, 2006.

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  • Species Diversity

    Species Diversity 16 (1-2), 1-37, 2011

    The Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology

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