This paper is an update on the Mediterranean bryozoan diversity since the annotated check-
list of Rosso & Di Martino (2016), following the publication of numerous new papers …

Artificial habitats, such as harbours and marinas, are entry doors for the introduction and
dispersal of species. Surveys on fouling community in these habitats help to understand …

Background Understanding the phylogenetic relationships among species is one of the
main goals of systematic biology. Simultaneously, credible phylogenetic hypotheses are …

Abstract Knowledge of the marine bryozoan fauna of Uruguay is mostly based on scattered
records found in local faunistic surveys and the taxonomic results of two oceanographic …

The type specimens of 42 cheilostome bryozoan species introduced by Lars Silén between
1938 and 1954 and housed at three different Swedish institutions (the Swedish Museum of …

Cope's Rule describes increasing body size in evolutionary lineages through geological
time. This pattern has been documented in unitary organisms but does it also apply to …

Bryozoans with calcified frontal shields formed by the fusion of costae, collectively
constituting a spinocyst, are traditionally assigned to the family Cribrilinidae. Today, this …

Biological and abiotic processes influence ecosystem structure and species distribution. For
bryozoan assemblages, depth, substratum and habitat structure are among the main factors …

Here, we present the taxonomy of five little-known cheilostome smittinid species of Bahia
State, northeast Brazil, assigned to Hemismittoidea Soule & Soule, 1973, Smittina Norman …

The zoological dry collection of the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm
includes an important, historical bryozoan section that is rich in species and specimens and …