Membraniporopsis serrilamelloides
Overview
Scientific Name: Membraniporopsis serrilamelloides
Phylum: Bryozoa
Class: Gymnolaemata
Order: Cheilostomatida
Family: Sinoflustridae
Genus: Membraniporopsis
Species:
serrilamelloides
[Describe here as A. iricolor]
Native Distribution
Origin Realm:
Temperate Northern Pacific, Central Indo-Pacific
Native Region:
Origin Location:
Central Indo-Pacific
[China] Hong Kong. (Huang & Li 1990) STATUS NOT STATED
Lingdingyan, Mouth of Zhujang river and its neighbouring districts, Daya Bay, Dapeng Bay in Guandong Province. (Liu 1992) STATUS NOT STATED
Uncertain realm[China] (Liu 2008, cited in Bock 2015) STATUS NOT STATED
Geographic Range:
[Western Pacific] China; East Asian Species (Liu 2008, cited in Bock 2015; Gordon et al 2006)
General Diversity:
NF
Non-native Distribution
Invasion History:
No records of invasion (Global Invasive Species Database 2016)
Non-native Region:
Not applicable
Invasion Propens:
Not applicable
Status Date Non-native:
Not applicable
Vectors and Spread
Initial Vector:
NF
Second Vector:
NF
Vector Details:
NF
Spread Rate:
NF
Date First Observed in Japan:
NF
Date First Observed on West coast North America:
NF
Impacts
Impact in Japan:
NF
Global Impact:
NF
Tolerences
Native Temperature Regime:
Subtropical
Native Temperature Range:
Hong Kong: max 28.5ºC in summer and min 18.1ºC in winter. (Clark et al. 2003)
Subtropical (M. Otani, pers. comm.)
Non-native Temperature Regime:
Not applicable
Non-native Temperature Range:
Not applicable
Native Salinity Regime:
Mesohaline, Polyhaline, Euhaline
Native Salinity Range:
Hong Kong: max 34.0psu in dry period and min 10.0psu in wet period. (Clark et al. 2003)
Non-native Salinity Regime:
Not applicable
Temperature Regime Survival:
NF
Temperature Range Survival:
NF
Temperature Regime Reproduction:
NF
Temperature Range Reproduction:
NF
Salinity Regime Survival:
NF
Salinity Range Survival:
NF Salintiy Regime Reproduction:
Polyhaline, Euhaline
Salinity Range Reproduction:
NF
Depth Regime:
Shallow subtidal
Depth Range:
It is assumed the depth is several meters because several colonies were collected from culture cages for fisheries, buoys (Liu 1992) or test panels attached to the experimental raft. (Huang & Li 1990)
Non-native Salinity Range:
Native Abundance:
See details
Reproduction
Fertilization Mode:
See details
Reproduction Mode:
Hermaphrodite/monoecious
Spawning Type:
NA
Development Mode:
Planktotrophic planktonic larva (feeding)
Asexual Reproduction:
Budding/fragmentation (Splitting into unequal parts. Buds may form on the body of the “parentâ€)
Reproduction Details:
RELATED:
[Order: Cheilostomata] Free spawning species produce the characteristic triangular cyphonautes larva. These larvae are long-lived and planktotrophic. The larval body is enclosed in a membranous shell; the size can be up to little over 1 mm. Cyphonautes larvae are not keyed out - if possible at all. (van Couwelaar 2003)
[Gymnolaemates] Internal fertilization, whether intracoelomic or intraovarian, is obligatory (Temkin 1994 and 1996, cited in Ostrovsky 2013)
[Gymnolaemates] Differ from most organisms in that sperm-egg fusion does not stimulate egg activation. Egg activation may not occur until "spawned" outside of maternal zooid (Temkin 1991)
[Membraniporidea] Shed numerous small eggs directlyto the sea (Hayward & Ryland 1998) and fertilize in the sea. (Mawatari 1976) These develop into shelled, planktorophic larvae, termed cyphonautes, which feed and grow during several weeks or months spent in the plankton. (Hayward & Ryland 1998)
[Bryozoans] While sperm is spawned through pores in lophophore tentacles, eggs are usually harbored inside the body wall, and are internally fertilized by sperm, coming in on lophophore feeding currents (Brusca and Brusca 2003, cited in Rouse 2011; Kozloff 1990, cited in Rouse 2011)
[Bryozoans] Colonial hermaphrodites, with testes (spermatogenic tissue) and ovaries developing either within the same zooid (zooidal hermaphroditism) or in different zooids within the same colony (zooidal gonochorism) (Ostrovsky 2013)
Members of the phylum Bryozoa are hermaphroditic. Both fertilization and egg brooding may either be internal or external (Ruppert et al. 2004)
[Bryozoa] All bryozoan colonies are hermaphroditic. Autozooids may be dioecious; or monoecious, and protandrous or protogynous. (Hayward & Ryland 1998)
[Bryozoa] Reproduces asexually by budding. (Mawatari 1976)
Adult Mobility:
Sessile
Adult Mobility Details:
Solely encrusting species (Gordon et al 2006)
RELATED:
[Bryozoa] The abundance and taxonomic diversity of benthic bryozoan faunas are directly related to substratum. (Hayward & Ryland 1998)
[Bryozoa] Bryozoan colonies are sessile (Hayami 1975)
[Bryozoa] Bryozoans are a phylum of sessile, colonial suspension feeders found throughout the world in both marine and freshwater environments. (Tilbrook 2012)
Maturity Size:
NF
Maturity Age:
NF
Reproduction Lifespan:
NF
Longevity:
NF
Broods per Year:
NF
Reproduction Cues:
RELATED:
[Bryozoans] Experiments often used light as a cue to collect embryos/larvae (Woollacott and Zimmer 1977)
[Bryozoa] In coastal species light is an important stimulus to larval release, and many cheilostomates shed larvae during the first few hours of daylight. (Hayward & Ryland 1998)
[Bryozoa] In various degrees of intensity according to the species temperature also stimulates sexual reproduction. (Winston 1977)
Reproduction Time:
NF
Fecundity:
NF
Egg Size:
RELATED:
[Gymnolaemata] About 200µm (Woollacott and Zimmer 1977)
Egg Duration:
NF
Early Life Growth Rate:
RELATED:
[Gymnolaemata] Two phases of larvae metamorphosis: first stage about 20mins; second stage 1-6 days (Woollacott and Zimmer 1977)
Adult Growth Rate:
NF
Population Growth Rate:
NF
Population Variablity:
NF
Habitat
Ecosystem:
Fouling
Habitat Type:
Epibenthic
Substrate:
Artificial substrate
Exposure:
Protected
Habitat Expansion:
NF
Habitat Details:
Several colonies were collected from culture cages for fisheries, buoys (Liu 1992) or test panels attached to the experimental raft. (Huang & Li 1990)
Trophic Level:
Suspension feeder
Trophic Details:
RELATED:
[Bryozoans] Suspension feeder...filter phytoplankton less than 0.045mm in size from the water column. (Hill 2001)
[Bryozoa] Many phytoplankton species are cleary unsuitable as food for bryozoans. (Hayward & Ryland 1998)
[Cheilostomata] Main food is diatom, protozoans and etc. and unappropriate sized particles are ejected (Mawatari 1976)
Forage Mode:
Generalist
Forage Details:
RELATED:
[Bryozoans] Suspension feeder...filter phytoplankton less than 0.045mm in size from the water column. (Hill 2001)
[Bryozoa] Many phytoplankton species are cleary unsuitable as food for bryozoans. (Hayward & Ryland 1998)
[Cheilostomata] Main food is diatom, protozoans and etc. and unappropriate sized particles are ejected (Mawatari 1976)
Natural Control:
RELATED:
PREDATION
[Predation] [Bryozoa] Browsers and grazers, including sea urchins, fish, crabs and some prosobranchs, are known to include bryozoans in their diet. (Hayward & Ryland 1998)
[Predation] [Bryozoa] Bryozoans are also the prey of very many small, selective predators, some of which may be adapted to a very narrow spectrum of prey species. Among them opisthobranch predators of bryozoans are well known. (Hayward & Ryland 1998)
[Predation] [Bryozoa] Other than opisthobranchs as a predator, amphipods, isopods, mites and pycnogonids have all been recorded preying on bryozoan colonies. (Hayward & Ryland 1998)
EPIBIONTS
[Epibionts] [Cheilostomata] It is frequently observed in Japan that several species of hydroids flourish on Cheilostomata cause damages to them. (Mawatari 1976)
Associated Species:
NF
References and Notes
References:
Bock, P. (2015). Membraniporopsis serrilamelloides (Liu & Li, 1987). In P. Bock, & D. Gordon (Eds.). World List of Bryozoa. Retrieved from http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=472360
Clarke C, Hillard R, Junqueira AOR, Neto ACL, Polglaze J, Raaymakers S (2003) Ballast water risk assessment, Port of Sepetiba, Fedral Republic of Brazil. GloBallast Monograph Series 14: 1-63 + 7 Appendices.
Global Invasive Species Database. http://www.iucngisd.org/gisd/ Access Date: 16-Mar-2016.
Gordon, D. P., Ramalho, L. V., & Taylor, P. D. (2006). An unreported invasive bryozoan that can affect livelihoods—Membraniporopsis tubigera in New Zealand and Brazil. Bulletin of Marine Science, 78(2), 331-342
Hayami T (1975) Neogene Bryozoa from northern Japan. Science Reports of the Tohoku University, Ser. 2 (Geology) 45: 83-126. http://ci.nii.ac.jp/els/110004646784.pdf?id=ART0007368357&type=pdf&lang=jp&host=cinii&order_no=&ppv_type=0&lang_sw=&no=1458033798&cp
Hayward PF & Ryland JS (1998) Cheilostomatous Bryozoa part I. Aeteoidea - Cribrilinoidea. Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series). Barnes RSK & Crothers JH (eds.) No. 10 (Second Edition). The Linnean Society of London and The Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association by Field Studies Council: 366pp.
Hill, K. (2001) Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce. Retrieved from http://www.sms.si.edu/irlspec/Electr_bellul.htm
Huang Z & Li C (1990) The bryozoan foulers of Hong Kong and neighbouring waters. Proceedings of the Second International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China, Hong Kong, 1986. Morton B (ed.). Hong Kong University Press: 737-781.
Liu XX (1992) On the genus Membranipora (Anasca: Cheilostomata: Bryozoa) from south Chinese seas. Raffes Bulletin of Zoology 40: 103-144. https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/nus/pdf/PUBLICATION/Raffles%20Bulletin%20of%20Zoology/Past%20Volumes/RBZ%2040(1)/40rbz103-144.pdf
Mawatari S (1976) Bryozoa (Ectoprocta). In: Animal systematics. Uchida T (ed.) Nakayama-shoten Co. Ltd., Tokyo: 35-229. (in Japanese)
Ostrovsky, A. N. (2013). Evolution of Sexual Reproduction in Marine Invertebrates – Example of gymnolaemate bryozoans. Dordrectht: Springer Netherlands. Doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-7146-8
Rouse, S. (2011). Aetea anguina. Bryozoa of the British Isles. Retrieved from http://britishbryozoans.myspecies.info/content/aetea-anguina-linnaeus-1758
Ruppert, E.E., Fox, R.S., and Barnes, R.D. (2004). Invertebrate Zoology: A functional evolutionary approach. Ann Arbor, MN: Thomson Brooks/Cole.
Temkin, M. H. (1991). Fertilization in the Gymnolaemate Bryozoa (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. (DP23819).
Tilbrook KJ (2012) Cheilostomata: first records of two invasive species in Australia and the northerly range extension for a third. Check List 8: 181-183. http://www.checklist.org.br/getpdf?NGD192-11
Van Couwelaar, M. (2003). Zooplankton and Micronekton of the North Sea. Retrieved from http://species-identification.org/species.php?species_group=zmns&menuentry=groepen&id=102&tab=refs
Winston JE (1977). Distribution and ecology of estuarine ectoprocts: A critical review. Chesapeake Science, 18: 34â€57. doi:10.2307/1350363. https://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau%3A6214/datastream/OBJ/view/Distribution_and_ecology_of_estuarine_ectoprocts__A_critical_review.pdf
Woollacott, R. M., & Zimmer, R. L. (Eds.). (1977). Biology of Bryozoans. New York, NY: Academic Press
Literature:
Little or no information; expert opinion based on general knowledge
Notes:
NA