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D. Eurico Dias Nogueira & Luís Rebelo (entrevistador), D. Eurico Dias Nogueira : Memórias do Arcebispo, Lisboa, Editorial Notícias, 2003
No full textSouto Amélia Neves de. D. Eurico Dias Nogueira & Luís Rebelo (entrevistador), D. Eurico Dias Nogueira : Memórias do Arcebispo, Lisboa, Editorial Notícias, 2003. In: Lusotopie, n°11, 2004. Médias pouvoir et identités. pp. 445-449
D. Eurico Dias Nogueira & Luís Rebelo (entrevistador), D. Eurico Dias Nogueira : Memórias do Arcebispo, Lisboa, Editorial Notícias, 2003
No full textSouto Amélia Neves de. D. Eurico Dias Nogueira & Luís Rebelo (entrevistador), D. Eurico Dias Nogueira : Memórias do Arcebispo, Lisboa, Editorial Notícias, 2003. In: Lusotopie, n°11, 2004. Médias pouvoir et identités. pp. 445-449
Setosella margaritae Reverter-Gil & Souto 2021, sp. nov.
No full textSetosella margaritae sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: E9976DD1-53EC-4547-A766-37B1DEE466DF Figs 4–5, Table 2 Setosella vulnerata – Reverter-Gil et al. 1992: 102, fig. 2; 2016: 28, fig. 4d. — Barcia Leal et al. 1993: 251. — Reverter-Gil 1995: 115, fig. 7. — Hayward & Ryland 1998: 298, fig. 103. — Reverter-Gil & Fernández-Pulpeiro 2001: 78 (shallow waters only). — De Blauwe 2006: 130, fig. 9; 2009: 252, figs 257–258. Non Setosella vulnerata – Jullien 1882: 28, pl. 17 fig. 66. — Calvet 1907: 394. — d’Hondt 1973: 367; 1974: 38. — Hayward 1979: 60. — Reverter-Gil & Fernández-Pulpeiro 2001: 78 (deep waters only). — Templado et al. 2006: 208. — Reverter-Gil et al. 2014: 16. — Souto et al. 2016: 416, figs 33, 38. — Rosso et al. 2020: 403, figs 1–2 [= Setosella vulnerata (Busk, 1860)]. Non Setosella vulnerata – Templado et al. 2002: 203. (= Setosella cyclopensis Rosso, Di Martino & Gerovasileiou, 2020). Differential diagnosis Setosella with small, encrusting colonies. Autozooids small, oval, with opesia D-shaped or irregularly rounded, and two oval to tear-shaped opesiules, positioned close to opesia and directly beside lateral walls of zooid. Small interzooidal vibracula oval, positioned distolateral to each autozooid, always on the right side and often without exceeding distal edge of autozooid, especially in ovicelled ones. Ectooecium with transversely oval membranous window and granular endooecial surface underneath, with a small, central pore. Ancestrula oval, with cryptocyst occupying slightly less than half of the frontal area; opesia semielliptical, with straight or slightly concave proximal border. Etymology This species is dedicated to Margarita Salas Falgueras (1938–2019), Spanish scientist, medical researcher, and author in the fields of biochemistry and molecular genetics. She was a disciple of S. Ochoa (see above). Material examined Holotype ATLANTIC SPAIN • colony on shell fragment; Galicia, Ría of Ferrol; 43º45.889´N, 08º293.33´W; depth 20 m; 13 Sep. 1989; Reverter-Gil leg.; MHNUSC 10120; (Fig. 4 A – B). Paratypes ATLANTIC SPAIN • several small juvenile colonies on shell fragment; same collection data as for holotype; MHNUSC 10121 (Fig. 4 C) • colony on shell fragment; same collection data as for holotype; MHNUSC 10122 (Fig. 5 C – D) • small eroded colony on shell fragment; Galicia, Ría of Ferrol; 43º45.500´N, 08º30.889´W; depth 12 m; 13 Sep. 1989; Reverter-Gil leg.; MHNUSC 10123 (Figs 4 D, 5 B). Other material ATLANTIC SPAIN • colony on maërl; Galicia, Ría of Vigo; 42º23.889´N, 08º79.369´W; depth 16 m; 16 Sep. 1986; Fernández-Pulpeiro leg.; MHNUSC-Bry 93a (together with Setosella sp.) (Fig. 5A) • colony on shell fragment; Galicia, Ría of Vigo; 42º23.139´N, 08º76.389´W; depth 9 m; 16 Sep. 1986; Fernández-Pulpeiro leg.; MHNUSC-Bry 93b • colony on shell fragment; Galicia, Ría of Vigo; 42º22.944´N, 08º88.056´W; depth 23 m; 2 Aug. 1985; Fernández-Pulpeiro leg.; MHNUSC-Bry 93c (together with Trypostega venusta (Norman, 1864) and Microporella ciliata (Pallas, 1766)) • colony on shell fragment; Galicia, Ría of Ferrol; 43º46.389´N, 08º26.333´W; depth 8 m; Jun. 2004; Reverter- Gil leg.; MHNUSC-Bry 656 (together with 12 spp. more). Lectotype of Setosella vulnerata NORTH SEA • UK, Shetland; Busk leg.; NHMUK 1899.7.1.1487 (see also Souto et al. 2016). Paralectotypes of Setosella vulnerata NORTH SEA • several colonies; UK, Shetland; Busk leg.; NHMUK 1911.10.1.760 (see also Souto et al. 2016). Other material of Setosella vulnerata MEDITERRANEAN SPAIN • Alboran Island; 35º83.550´N, 03º23.667´W; stn 313A; depth 118 m; 1996; Fauna Ibérica IV exped.; MNCN 25.03/3169 (Fig. 6). Material of Setosella cyclopensis MEDITERRANEAN SPAIN • Columbretes Islands; 39º87.217´N, 0º63.400´E; stn 283A; depth 80– 85 m; 1996; Fauna Ibérica IV exped.; MNCN 25.03/3149. Description Colony encrusting, unilaminar, forming small discoidal patches of alternating autozooids and vibracula. Autozooids irregularly oval, with well-developed smooth gymnocyst proximally that narrows and steepens distally, lateral walls slightly raised, framing an evenly granular cryptocyst that is flat and depressed proximally, gently rising distally to the opesiules to form the proximal border of the opesia. Opesia D-shaped or irregularly rounded, wider than long, distal margin with some blunt, irregularly spaced denticles. Two oval to tear-shaped opesiules (ca 20 μm long by 10 μm-wide), located in distal depressed area of the cryptocyst, positioned close to the opesia (mean 36 μm) and directly beside the lateral walls of zooid, their inner edges sometimes with several sharp denticles; the size of both opesiules unequal, the left one slightly larger. Small interzooidal vibracula oval, positioned distolateral to each autozooid, always on the right side and often without exceeding the distal edge of the autozooid, especially in ovicelled ones. Wide oval opesia, sometimes slightly narrower in the middle; seta long and slender, curved, up to twice length of the autozooid. Communication of zooids via small uniporous septula. Some autozooids and vibracula show evidence of breakage and regeneration associated with the intramural budding (Fig. 5C–D). Ovicells terminal, with a brood cavity immersed within the distal part of the maternal zooid. Kenozooidal ooecium roughly level with the colony surface, forming shallow hood covering distal end of the maternal zooid from which it is budded. Proximal ooecial margin forming the distal part of the zooidal orifice; ectooecium with transversely oval membranous window and granular endooecial surface underneath, with a small, central pore. Ovicellate zooids dimorphic, slightly wider distally, with orifices distinctly broader and campanulate in outline. Distal budding of autozooids and vibracula in ooecium-producing zooid retained. Ancestrula oval, with cryptocyst relatively smooth, occupying slightly less than half of the frontal area; opesia semi elliptical, with straight or slightly concave proximal border. Astogenesis beginning with one distal and two lateral autozooids; later zooids more irregularly arranged. The ancestrula also buds the two typical caudate vibracula of the genus: one short caudate, budded mid-laterally on the left side, and the other long caudate, budded distally, and sometimes curved to the right. On one occasion, however, this pattern was reversed, with the short vibraculum budded on the right side (Fig. 4C). Remarks The genus Setosella and all the species ascribed to it are at present well described under current standards. Setosella vulnerata, the type species of the genus, was redescribed by Souto et al. (2016). Rosso et al. (2020) redefined the genus itself as well as two known species (S. cavernicola Harmelin, 1977 and S. spiralis Silén, 1942) and three new species (S. alfioi Rosso, Di Martino & Gerovasileiou, 2020, S. cyclopensis Rosso, Di Martino & Gerovasileiou, 2020 and S. rossanae Rosso, Di Martino & Gerovasileiou, 2020). Another species, S. folini Jullien, 1882, was redescribed by Souto et al. (2011). Finally, an undescribed species was reported from Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula) as S. aff. cavernicola (see Reverter-Gil et al. 2012; Rosso et al. 2020). Setosella margaritae sp. nov. differs from S. vulnerata (see redescription by Souto et al. 2016) as well as from S. cyclopensis, quite a similar species, by several characters: the vibracula of S. margaritae sp. nov. are much smaller, about half the size, and characteristically shifted laterally on the right side, often without exceeding the distal end of the autozooid (especially in ovicelled zooids), instead being distal or only slightly distolateral. The autozooids are oval and clearly smaller in S. margaritae sp. nov. The opesiules are shorter, oval to tear-shaped, instead slit-like or elongated; moreover, the opesiules are located closer to the opesia and directly beside the lateral walls of the zooid, instead of away from the opesia and the lateral walls. The window of the ectooecium in S. margaritae sp. nov. is transversally oval, whilst in S. vulnerata and S. cyclopensis it is roughly circular, much smaller in the former species, much larger in the latter. Finally, the colonies of S. margaritae sp. nov. are very small, encrusting mainly shell fragments in shallow waters, as opposed to larger colonies encrusting mainly coarse sand, granules and fine pebbles in deeper waters in the other species. At the same time, Setosella folini and S. alfioi differ from S. margaritae sp. nov. most obviously by their uniserial, free-living colonies. Setosella cavernicola, S. rossanae and Setosella sp. (as S. aff. cavernicola in Reverter-Gil et al. 2012) differ by their circular opesiules, four or even up to five in the latter two species. Finally, S. spiralis differs by the much larger autozooids and vibracula, with opesiules located further away from the opesia, and by colonies with spirally arranged zooids typically in a single rightcoiled row. In the past, we have considered our own material to be similar to typical Setosella vulnerata. That is why we have cited deep material as Setosella sp. (see Reverter-Gil et al. 2012). But after the redescription of S. vulnerata by Souto et al. (2016) the situation has turned out to be just the opposite. Our previous records of S. vulnerata from shallow waters of Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula) are here assigned to S. margaritae sp. nov.: from the Ría of Ferrol at 8–20 m depth, and from the Ría of Vigo at 9–23 m depth, both on shell fragments (Reverter-Gil & Fernández-Pulpeiro 2001 and present data). These colonies are very small, formed by very few autozooids, but are fertile because ovicells are formed even in the first or second generations of periancestrular zooids (Figs 4A, C, 5A). Moreover, the material of S. vulnerata reported and figured by De Blauwe (2006, 2009), collected on shells at 10–25 m depth in Belgium (North Sea), also belongs to S. margaritae sp. nov. These colonies are larger than the Galician ones, but present the same characters, also including ovicells in the first or second generations of zooids (see De Blauwe 2009: figs 257–258; accessible also through WoRMS 2020: http://www.marinespecies.org/photogallery.php?album=709&pic=25695#photogallery and http://www.marinespecies.org/photogallery.php?album=709&pic=25696#photogallery). Moreover, the description and figures of S. vulnerata in Hayward & Ryland (1998) fit the present description of S. margaritae sp. nov., at least the shallow-water material referred to there. Accordingly, the species is quite possibly distributed in shallow waters along the Atlantic coast of Europe, from the North Sea to at least the NW of the Iberian Peninsula. Its occurrence in other areas should be confirmed by reviewing previous citations of S. vulnerata. In a previous paper (Reverter-Gil et al. 2012), we already suggested that previous records of S. vulnerata might correspond to several different species. Conversely, previous records of Setosella vulnerata in Atlantic Iberian deep waters (Cachucho [= Le Danois Bank], Galicia, Portugal and Gulf of Cadiz) actually belong to this species (see Jullien 1882; Calvet 1907; d’Hondt 1973, 1974; Hayward 1979; Harmelin & d’Hondt 1992; Reverter-Gil & Fernández-Pulpeiro 2001 only deep waters; Reverter-Gil et al. 2014; Souto et al. 2016), as is also the case for records published as Setosella sp. by Reverter-Gil et al. (2012) (see also Souto et al. 2016; Rosso et al. 2020). There are a few more previous records of Setosella vulnerata in Iberian waters: the record from Alboran Island, at 118 m depth, made by Templado et al. (2006) actually corresponds to S. vulnerata (see material examined and Fig. 6) as well as the recent records published by Ramalho et al. (2020) in a nearby area between 95 and 440 m depth. However, the record from Columbretes Islands (Mediterranean Spain), at 80 m depth, made by Templado et al. (2002) actually belongs to S. cyclopensis (see material examined; unfortunately, this sample is currently unavailable for photography). Thus, this is the first Iberian record of this Mediterranean species. We have no further information about the records published by Zabala et al. (1993) from the Blanes Canyon at 180–350 m depth and by Madurell et al. (2013) from Cap de Creus at 104–225 m depth (Catalonia), but based on the given depths these records may belong to S. vulnerata or to S. cyclopensis. Following Souto et al. (2016) and Rosso et al. (2020), Setosella vulnerata is distributed in the Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean, although several Atlantic and Mediterranean occurrences still need to be checked. As already stated by Rosso et al. (2020) it is likely that S. vulnerata is actually restricted to deep habitats from the shelf break and the continental slope.Published as part of Reverter-Gil, Oscar & Souto, Javier, 2021, Two new species of cheilostomate Bryozoa from Iberian waters, pp. 16-31 in European Journal of Taxonomy 760 on pages 22-28, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.760.1437, http://zenodo.org/record/512174
Moedas das escavações arqueológicas na Rua Souto 18-22. Braga
No full textMoedas das escavações arqueológicas na Rua Souto 18-2
"Portuguese school of conservation" - Museum of Transport and Communication by Eduardo Souto Moura in Porto
No full textArtykuł prezentuje adaptacje dawnej komory celnej Alfandega Nova w Porto na Muzeum Transportu i Komunikacji. Autorem projektu tej realizacji konserwatorskiej jest światowej sławy portugalski architekt Eduardo Souto Moura. Obiekt, wzniesiony w latach 70. XIX wieku z inicjatywy organizacji handlowej Associacao Comercial do Porto, w 1992 roku został przekazany stowarzyszeniu Associacao para o Museu dos Transportes e Comunicacoes (A.M.T.C.), które zleciło Eduardo Souto Mouro wykonanie projektu adaptacji Alfandega Nova. W zrewaloryzowanym obiekcie miała znaleźć się wysokiej jakości przestrzeń muzealna, a także centrum konferencyjne. Funkcje te zostały niezwykle umiejętnie zaadaptowane w zabytkowych murach XIX-wiecznego obiektu. Architekt w niebanalny sposób wykorzystał większość istniejących detali związanych z poprzednią funkcją Alfandega Nova, takich jak szyny czy żeliwne wyposażenie wnętrz. Dzięki takiemu zabiegowi udało się mu zachować dawny charakter i klimat obiektu pomimo wprowadzenia doń zupełnie odmiennej funkcji.The article presents an adaptation of the former customs house Alfandega Nova in Porto into the Museum of Transport and Communication. The author of the project of this conservation realisation is a world-famous Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto Moura. The object erected in the 1870s on the initiative of a trade organisation Associacao Comercial do Porto, in 1992 was handed over to the association Associacao para o Museu dos Transportes e Comunicacoes (A.M.T.C.), which commissioned Eduardo Souto Moura to design an adaptation of Alfandega Nova. The restored object was to house a high quality museum space, as well as a conference centre. Those functions were extremely skilfully adapted within the historical walls of the 19th-century walls. In an original way the architect used the majority of existing details connected with the previous function of Alfandega Nova, such as rails or cast iron fittings. Due to that he succeeded in preserving the former character and ambience of the object despite introducing a completely different function
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
“I+D outsourcing: la profundización en la internacionalización de la maquinaria agrícola argentina a través de la innovación y el diseño
No full textFil: Moiseeff Souto, José Nicolás. Universidad de San Andrés. Escuela de Negocios; Argentina
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Distansescharella cervicornis Souto, Berning & Ostrovsky, 2016, n. sp.
No full textDistansescharella cervicornis n. sp. (Figs 46–51, Table 10) ? Distansescharella alcicornis: López-Fé 2006: 1807, figs 7, 8. Material examined. Holotype: MNCN 25.03 / 3941, locality DR02. Paratypes: MNCN 25.03 / 3942, locality DR02; MNCN 25.03 / 3943, locality DR01; OLL 2015 / 900, locality DR02; OLL 2015 / 901, Locality V01. Etymology. The species name alludes to the antler-shaped oral spines. Description. Colonies encrusting, unilaminar, multiserial, forming spots or small patches. Zooids broadly oval, separated by grooves; costate frontal shield flattened, made of 20–24 broad flattened costae with up to 5 intercostal spaces, these elongated towards base of costa, round to oval in central part, often closed if costae closely appressed; costal surface wrinkled owing to growth striations; distalmost pair always distinctly broader, distal projections usually absent, forming extremely broad and very short central denticle with straight distal margin if present; gymnocystal walls well developed, especially in proximal region. Orifice broadly transversely D-shaped, distinctly wider than long, distal margin with 4 thick, branching oral spines in ovicellate and non-ovicellate zooids, forming a kind of collar around orifice with slightly wider gap between bases of distal pair; spines obliquely positioned, reminiscent of deer antlers, with 4–5 cylindrical terminal projections. Ovicells hyperstomial, cleithral. Bilobate ooecium produced by distal autozooid and positioned on its proximal gymnocyst; globular, usually as long as wide, with medial suture; ectooecium smooth, proximal margin incorporating bases of distal pair of oral spines. SD, standard deviation; N, number of measurements Avicularia interzooidal, small, normally with oval or pear-shaped cystid outline, but sometimes triangular or irregular, usually 2 per zooid, situated laterally to zooidal orifice, mandibles directed laterally to distally; lateral gymnocystal walls well developed; avicularian frontal area pyriform, framed by elevated rim, rostrum at acute angle to colony surface; postmandibular area forming 2 / 3 of full circle, being wider than semielliptical or semicircular palatal area that is separated from postmandibular area by small condyles on which mandible is hinged; cryptocystal shelf broadest proximally and narrowing distally, framing oval opening that united palatal foramen and postmandibular opesia. Kenozooids common, usually attaining slightly more than autozooid length and width, occasionally larger; frontal area flattened, almost entirely composed of smooth gymnocystal calcification apart from small round or elliptical central opesia that is encircled by narrow cryptocystal calcification and slightly elevated rim positioned more or less centrally. Basal pore-chambers present in all types of zooids. Only one tatiform ancestrula was found, partially overgrown, and presumably with 8–9 relatively thin, jointed branching spines. Remarks. This species is very similar to Distansescharella alcicornis but there are a sufficient number of differences that allow us to recognize it as a distinct species. The number of frontal costae always exceeds 20 in D. cervicornis n. sp., whereas D. alcicornis has 16–19 costae. Oral spines in the latter species have cylindrical, not flattened tines, and the ratio of orifice width to length is 1.48 in D. alcicornis in contrast to 2 in D. cervicornis n. sp. These differences are constant at all localities. Although ancestrulae were lacking from our specimens of D. alcicornis, Harmelin et al. (1989) described the ancestrula as tatiform with up to 17 spines. In contrast, there are only nine spines in the ancestrula of D. cervicornis n. sp. A variety of Jullien's species, Distansescharella alcicornis var. bifurcata (d'Hondt, 1974), was described based on a single specimen that differs in the morphology of the spines, which are bifurcated. The type specimen of this variety (MNHN 6983) is a small colony formed by four zooids that are not very well preserved. The number of frontal costae in these zooids is 16 or 17, thus similar to D. alcicornis, whereas the only spine present (while broken) is apparently bifurcate. It is impossible to comment further on the status of this taxon until new material has been obtained. The specimens described by López-Fé (2006) and identified as D. alcicornis are very similar to D. cervicornis n. sp. The zooids have a large number of frontal costae (up to 24) as well as oral spines with cylindrical, not flattened tines. It is possible that these specimens from bathyal waters of the Canary Islands (1686–2200 m depth) correspond to D. cervicornis n. sp. but it is difficult to come to a conclusion based on the single image provided, particularly considering the geographic distance between these two deep-water populations. At Galicia Bank, D. cervicornis n. sp. was found at six localities, growing on dead corals and rocks between 770 and 1697 m depth.Published as part of Souto, Javier, Berning, Björn & Ostrovsky, Andrew N., 2016, Systematics and diversity of deep-water Cheilostomata (Bryozoa) from Galicia Bank (NE Atlantic), pp. 401-459 in Zootaxa 4067 (4) on pages 421-423, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/25794
Placidoporella Souto, Berning & Ostrovsky, 2016, n. gen.
No full textPlacidoporella n. gen. Type specie s: Microporella insperata Jullien, 1882. Diagnosis. Colony encrusting, uniserial, with c. 40 ° bifurcations at irregular intervals. Zooids oval, frontal shield lepralioid, bearing numerous pseudopores across entire surface except for sloping part distal to orifice, vertical walls absent, interzooidal communications via 2 small flat distolateral basal pore-chambers; orifice transversely Dshaped, with no oral spines, proximal margin slightly convex, condyles present. Ovicells hyperstomial, terminal; ooecium kenozooidal, resting on frontal shield of maternal zooid distal to orifice and communicating with visceral coelom via 1–2 pores; ectooecium calcified with several pseudopores, laterally covered by imperforate secondary calcification of maternal zooid. Avicularia absent. Ancestrula unknown. Etymology. Latin placidus, flat, shallow, alluding to the gently convex frontal shield rising from the substratum in the absence of lateral walls, plus - porella, a common suffix for bryozoan taxa with a pseudoporous frontal shield. Gender feminine. Remarks. Microporella insperata Jullien, 1882, which is conspecific with the Galicia Bank material and which we select here as the type of the new genus, belongs neither to Microporella Hincks, 1877 nor to the Microporellidae Hincks, 1879. Owing to the ‘smittinid’ appearance of the ooecium, Placidoporella n. gen. is tentatively placed in the Smittinoidea, although it is difficult to assign it to any of the known families. It is unique in its absence of lateral walls along the proximolateral zooidal margins, having only a pair of extremely reduced, low-arched, distolateral basal pore-chambers, from which one or two zooids are budded. The ooecium is kenozooidal and is positioned on the sloping distal wall of the maternal zooid instead of being produced by the distal zooid as in all other smittinoid taxa. The zooidal orifice is transversely D-shaped and has condyles, whereas other characters in existing Smittinoidea, such as a lyrula (most Smittinidae) or a sinus (Bitectiporidae), are absent. Moreover, oral spines and avicularia are wanting. However, as it is vaguely similar to Galiciapora unica n. gen., n. sp. (see below), we tentatively assign it to the Bitectiporidae. Placidoporella is morphologically also similar to the new genus and species Cheilonellopsis inflata Gordon, 2014, which was placed in the Lacernidae mainly owing to its ooecial characters (membranous ectooecium, smooth imperforate endooecium, produced by the distal zooid). The similarities between these two species from distinctly distant regions is remarkable, both sharing the same colony and autozooidal morphology, as well as the budding pattern and the absence of vertical walls with only two distolateral pore chambers remaining (Gordon 2014, figs 8 E,F). Differences in ovicell type and formation between C. inflata (ectooecium membranous, ooecial fold formed by the distal zooid) and Placidoporella insperata n. comb. (with calcified ectooecium, kenozooidal origin, positioning on the maternal zooid), however, do not allow placing the two taxa in the same family. The exact type of ovicell closure in P. insperata is impossible to distinguish in dry material. The proximal ovicell margin parallels that of the primary orifice, indicating that it may be closed by the operculum during embryonic development, i.e. closure is cleithral (subcleithral) sensu Ostrovsky (2008, 2013). Yet the operculum was never seen resting on the ooecial margin, and it is questionable if it can reach the ooecial margin as the ovicell opening is fairly elevated above the primary orifice. It is therefore possible that the closure type is acleithral (pseudocleithral).Published as part of Souto, Javier, Berning, Björn & Ostrovsky, Andrew N., 2016, Systematics and diversity of deep-water Cheilostomata (Bryozoa) from Galicia Bank (NE Atlantic), pp. 401-459 in Zootaxa 4067 (4) on pages 444-445, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/25794
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