Zootaxa 2722: 1–53 (2010) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Article ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2010 · Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) New and little-known cheilostomatous Bryozoa from the south and southeastern Brazilian continental shelf and slope LEANDRO M. VIEIRA1, DENNIS P. GORDON2, FACELUCIA B.C. SOUZA3 & MARIA ANGÉLICA HADDAD4 1Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo; Centro de Biologia Marinha, Universidade de São Paulo. 11600–000, São Sebastião, São Paulo, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected] 2National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA). Private Bag 14901, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand. E-mail: [email protected] 3Centro de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Geofísica e Geologia do Instituto de Geociências e Museu de Zoologia do Instituto de Biologia of the Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected] 4Laboratório de Estudos de Cnidaria e Bryozoa, Departamento de Zoologia, Setor de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Paraná. Caixa Postal 19.020, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected] Table of contents Abstract ............................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Material and methods .......................................................................................................................................................... 4 Systematic account .............................................................................................................................................................. 5 Class Gymnolaemata Allman, 1856 .................................................................................................................................... 5 Order Cheilostomata Busk, 1852a ...................................................................................................................................... 5 Suborder Neocheilostomina d’Hondt, 1985........................................................................................................................ 5 Infraorder Flustrina Smitt, 1868 .......................................................................................................................................... 5 Superfamily Calloporoidea Norman, 1903 ......................................................................................................................... 5 Family Chaperiidae Jullien, 1888 ....................................................................................................................................... 5 Genus Chaperia Jullien, 1881............................................................................................................................................. 5 Chaperia brasiliensis n. sp. ......................................................................................................................................... 6 Superfamily Buguloidea Gray, 1848................................................................................................................................... 6 Family Candidae d’Orbigny, 1851...................................................................................................................................... 6 Genus Amastigia Busk, 1852b ............................................................................................................................................ 6 Amastigia aviculifera n. sp. ......................................................................................................................................... 7 Superfamily Flustroidea Fleming, 1828.............................................................................................................................. 9 Family Flustridae Fleming, 1828 ........................................................................................................................................ 9 Genus Isosecuriflustra Liu & Hu, 1991.............................................................................................................................. 9 Isosecuriflustra pinniformis n. sp. ...............................................................................................................................9 Superfamily Cellarioidea Fleming, 1828 .......................................................................................................................... 11 Family Cellariidae Fleming, 1828 ..................................................................................................................................... 11 Genus Cellaria Ellis & Solander, 1786............................................................................................................................. 11 Cellaria subtropicalis n. sp. ...................................................................................................................................... 11 Genus Melicerita Milne Edwards, 1836 ........................................................................................................................... 12 Melicerita brasiliensis n. sp. ..................................................................................................................................... 12 Infraorder Ascophorina Levinsen, 1909 ........................................................................................................................... 14 Superfamily Cribrilinoidea Hincks, 1879a ....................................................................................................................... 14 Family Cribrilinidae Hincks, 1879a .................................................................................................................................. 14 Genus Corbuliporina n. gen. ............................................................................................................................................ 14 Corbuliporina crepida n. sp. ..................................................................................................................................... 14 Superfamily Hippothooidea Busk, 1859 ........................................................................................................................... 16 Family Chorizoporidae Vigneaux, 1949 ........................................................................................................................... 16 Genus Chorizopora Hincks, 1879b.................................................................................................................................... 16 Accepted by Z.-Q. Zhang: 28 Oct. 2010; published: 15 Dec. 2010 1 Chorizopora brongniartii (Audouin, 1826)............................................................................................................... 16 Superfamily Arachnopusioidea Jullien, 1888 ................................................................................................................... 18 Family Arachnopusiidae Jullien, 1888.............................................................................................................................. 18 Genus Arachnopusia Jullien, 1888 ................................................................................................................................... 18 Arachnopusia haywardi n. sp. ................................................................................................................................... 18 Superfamily Smittinoidea Levinsen, 1909 ........................................................................................................................ 20 Family Smittinidae Levinsen, 1909 .................................................................................................................................. 20 Genus Smittina Norman, 1903 .......................................................................................................................................... 20 Smittina migottoi n. sp. .............................................................................................................................................. 20 Superfamily Schizoporelloidea Jullien, 1883 ................................................................................................................... 22 Family Incertae sedis ......................................................................................................................................................... 22 Genus Hippomenella Canu & Bassler, 1917 ..................................................................................................................... 22 Hippomenella amaralae n. sp. .................................................................................................................................. 22 Family Lacernidae Jullien, 1888 ....................................................................................................................................... 23 Genus Rogicka Uttley & Bullivant, 1972 ......................................................................................................................... 23 Rogicka joannae n. sp. ..............................................................................................................................................