Vol. 46 No. 4, 2007

Bryozoan Fauna of Green Island, Taiwan: First Indications of Biodiversity

Tea Gluhak^1,*, Jane E. Lewis², and Aleksandar Popijac³

¹The County of Split and Dalmatia, Administrative Department of Town Planning and Environmental Protection, Domovinskog rata 2, 21000 Split, Croatia
²PO Box 7-18, Keelung 202, Taiwan
³Laboratory for Animal Ecology, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Rooseveltov trg 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Tea Gluhak, Jane E. Lewis, and Aleksandar Popijac (2007) As part of an initiative to inventory the poorly known Taiwan bryozoan fauna, this paper reports on results of 2 workshops that processed and identified collections from Green I., southeastern Taiwan.  In total, 30 species of 22 genera  were found, six of which are new to science.  The new species, all in the order Cheilostomata, are Amastigia tricervicornis, Caberea sinensis, Catenicella marceli, Hemismittoidea taiwanensis, Parasmittina spiculata, and Celleporina avicularidentata.  In comparing the 3 major groups, cheilostomes predominated, only a few cyclostome taxa were recognized, and no ctenostomes were found.  These completely new data from Green I. likely reflect the taxonomic richness of the bryozoan fauna in the tropical western Pacific biogeographic region, even though this region still remains relatively poorly inventoried.

Key words: Bryozoa, Faunistic review, New species, Taiwan, Tropical western Pacific.

*Correspondence: Tel: 385-91-5357634.  E-mail:tea.gluhak@zg.htnet.hr, tea.gluhak@dalmacija.hr