Microporella modesta Di Martino, Taylor & Gordon, 2020 from several localities A Ionian Sea, Ciclopi 2000, PMC Rosso-Collection I. H. B.86a B Ionian Sea, Gulf of Noto, PMC Rosso-Collection I. H. B.86e C Sicily Strait, Egadi Islands, PMC Rosso-Collection I. H. B.86h D Ionian Sea, Castelluccio, PMC Rosso-Collection I. H. B.86c F Iberian-Provençal Basin, Asinara MPA, PMC Rosso-Collection I. H. B.86j A bilaminar branch with elongate autozooids along branch edge and a cluster of ovicells B apparently cylindrical branch resulting from a colony encrusting an internode of Cellaria. Note the formation of irregularly elongate autozooids C unbleached colony encrusting a soft algal frond. Prominent avicularian rostra and mucros associated with ascopore contribute to the spiky appearance of the colony. Note the co-occurrence of ovicells with and without frontal tubercles D bleached colony on algae with ovicells with different degrees of frontal tubercle development E ovicellate zooids of a tubular “pseudovinculariiform” colony originally developed on a thin ephemeral substratum F originally tatiform ancestrula regenerated as a kenozooid, budding two distolateral autozooids lacking avicularia. Scale bars: 1 mm (A); 200 µm (B, E, F); 500 µm (C, D).

 
 
  Part of: Di Martino E, Rosso A (2021) Seek and ye shall find: new species and new records of Microporella (Bryozoa, Cheilostomatida) in the Mediterranean. ZooKeys 1053: 1-42. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1053.65324