Microporella klugei Kuklinski and Taylor, 2008

• Original description
• Type specimen SEM images
• Other SEM images

• Synonymy
• Microporella ciliata var. arctica Kluge 1962, p. 519, fig. 362; Gostilovskaya 1978, p. 215, fig. 136; Kluge, 1975; p. 631; fig. 362.
• Microporella arctica Soule et al. 2005; fig. 1.
• Microporella klugei Kuklinski and Taylor 2008, p. 1901-1903, fig. 3.
• Type specimen

Holotype
NHML 2008.02.06.12
Hollenderbukta, Isfjorden (77°N, 15°E),
West Spitsbergen,
on Chlamys islandica shell,
22 August 2000,
Dredge,
collected by P. Kuklinski,.

• Distribution

Arctic circumpolar

• References
• Gostilovskaya MG. 1978. Bryozoa of the White Sea. Leningrad: “Nauka” (in Russian) 248 p.
• Kluge GA. 1962. Bryozoans of the Northern Seas of the USSR. Moskva-Leningrad: Izdatel’stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR. 584 p. (in Russian).
• Kluge GA. 1975. Bryozoa of the northern seas of the USSR. New Delhi: Amerind Publishing Co. Pvt. 711 p.
• Soule DF, Morris PA, Chaney HW. 2005. Ovicell pores and frontal wall pore sieve plates in eastern Pacific Microporellidae. In: Moyano HI, Cancino JM, Wyse-Jackson PN, editors. Bryozoan Studies 2004. Leiden: A.A. Balkema Publishers. P. 303–315.
• Kuklinski, P., Taylor, P.D. 2008. Arctic species of the cheilostome bryozoan Microporella, with a redescription of the type species. Journal of Natural History 42: 1893-1906.