Six species of Calyptotheca (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata, Lanceoporidae) from the Gulf of Carpentaria and northern Australia, with description of a new species

ROBYN L. CUMMING; KEVIN J. TILBROOK

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3827.2.2

Issue: Vol. 3827 No. 2: 3 Jul. 2014

Type: Article

Published: 2014-07-03

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3827.2.2

Page range: 147–169

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**Six species of Calyptotheca (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata, Lanceoporidae) from the Gulf of Carpentaria and northern Australia, with description of a new species**

ROBYN L. CUMMING⁺⁻
KEVIN J. TILBROOK⁺⁻

Museum of Tropical Queensland, 70–102 Flinders Street, Townsville, Queensland, 4810, Australia

Research Associate, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW, UK

Timor Sea Arafura Sea Beagle Gulf tropical Australia Indo-Pacific

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Abstract

A new diagnosis is presented for Calyptotheca Harmer, 1957 and six species are described from the Gulf of Carpentaria: C. wasinensis (Waters, 1913) (type species), C. australis (Haswell, 1880), C. conica Cook, 1965 (with a redescription of the holotype), C. tenuata Harmer, 1957, C. triquetra (Harmer, 1957) and C. lardil n. sp. These are the first records of Bryozoa from the Gulf of Carpentaria, and the first Australian records for C. wasinensis, C. tenuata and C. triquetra. The limit of distribution of three species is extended east to the Gulf of Carpentaria, from Kenya for C. wasinensis, from China for C. tenuata, and from northwestern Australia for C. conica. The number of tropical Calyptotheca species in Australian territorial waters is increased from seven to eleven.