Type species: Macropora centralis MacGillivray, 1895 (?=Lepralia grandis Hutton, 1873)
| Synonyms | Author | Type Species |
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| Macroporella | Uttley, 1949 | Macroporella waimatukuensis Uttley, 1949 |
| Macroporina | Uttley, 1949 | Macroporina retusa Uttley, 1949 |
Colony uniserial or pluriserial. If pluriserial, encrusting or erect; unilaminar, bilaminar foliaceous or plurilaminar by self overgrowth. Zooids large and convex. Frontal wall extensive, calcified, rugose and perforate by pseudopores which serve as opesiules. Orifice D-shaped, with a distal oral shelf (vestibular arch) under the operculum. Operculum calcified and thick. Heterozooidal gynozooids may be present. Ovicell subimmersed usually recumbent, the zooid it overlies being restricted, in many cases having no room to develop either a polypide, or orifice and operculum and thus is a kenozooid. The ovicell is closed by the operculum of the maternal zooid, which has two positions of closure: an upper one for the ovicell and, below this, a position for the zooid. Avicularia may exist, similar in size and aspect to an autozooid, but differing in their orifices that are roughly square or rectangular in shape, usually with external denticles in their distal edge and acute teeth directed downwards, not visible when the orifice is closed. Oral spines present either in the avicularia, the autozooids, or both. If both zooidal types have oral spines, those of the avicularia are usually longer and thicker. Avicularia with oral spines have always one spine more than the mandibles have denticles. Interzooidal communication by basal pore chambers (dietellae), usually three (one distal and two distolateral) produced by each zooid, sometimes divided into secondary chambers. (Lopez de la Cuadra & Garcia Gomez, 1997).
This genus includes the species:
| Macropora africana | Hayward & Cook, 1983 | Recent | S. Africa |
| Macropora antarctica | Hara, 2002 | Eocene | Antarctica Seymour I. |
| Macropora? aquiae | Canu & Bassler, 1920 | Paleogene Paleocene Thanetian? | USA Maryland |
| Macropora browni | de la Cuadra & Garcia-Gomez, 1997 | Recent | New Zealand |
| Macropora bullata | Gordon & Taylor, 2008 | Paleogene Eocene Priabonian | New Zealand |
| Macropora carlosi | Gordon & Taylor, 2008 | Recent | Pacific southwest Norfolk Ridge |
| Macropora centralis | MacGillivray, 1895 | Miocene | Australia |
| Macropora cribrilifera | Maplestone, 1901 | Tertiary | Australia |
| Macropora filifera | Gordon & Taylor, 2008 | Recent | New Zealand |
| Macropora georgiensis | de la Cuadra & Garcia-Gomez, 1997 | Recent | S. Atlantic |
| Macropora grandis | (Hutton, 1873) | Recent Tertiary |
New Zealand New Zealand, Australia? |
| Macropora leeae | Gordon & Taylor, 2008 | Paleogene Oligocene Rupelian | New Zealand |
| Macropora levinseni | Brown, 1952 | Tertiary | New Zealand |
| Macropora mawatariorum | Gordon & Taylor, 2008 | Recent | Japan |
| Macropora nodulosa | Gordon & Taylor, 2008 | Recent | New Zealand |
| Macropora operculata | (Canu, 1908) | Tertiary | Argentina |
| Macropora pittensis | Gordon & Taylor, 2008 | Neogene Pliocene Zanclean-Piacenzian | New Zealand Chatham Islands |
| Macropora polymorpha | (Philipps, 1899) | Recent | Lifu, New Caledonia |
| Macropora quadriseriata | Canu & Bassler, 1935 | Tertiary | Australia |
| Macropora retusa | (Uttley, 1949) | Oligocene | New Zealand |
| Macropora septispinosa | Gordon & Taylor, 2008 | Neogene Miocene Burdigalian-Aquitanian | New Zealand |
| Macropora similis | Gordon & Taylor, 2008 | Neogene Pliocene | New Zealand |
| Macropora spinifera | (Philipps, 1899) | Recent | Lifu, New Caledonia |
| Macropora trisinuata | (Uttley, 1949) | Oligocene | New Zealand |
| Macropora uttleyi | de la Cuadra & Garcia-Gomez, 1997 | Recent | New Zealand |
| Macropora waimatukensis | (Uttley, 1949) | Oligocene | New Zealand |
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| Macropora centralis | Macropora cribrilifera |
Harmer notebook - entry for Macropora
References:
Banta, William C., Gray, Natasha, & Gordon, Dennis P., 1997. A cryptocystal operculum and a new method of lophophore protrusion in the cheilostome bryozoan Macropora levinseni.
Invertebrate Biology, 116:161-170.
López de la Cuadra, Carlos-Maria, & García-Gómez, Jos-Carlos 1997. Studies on Recent Macroporidae (Bryozoa, Cheilostomatida), with new taxa and ontogeny of the ovicells.
Journal of zoology, London, 242:605-621.
Gordon, Dennis P. & Taylor, Paul D., 2008. Systematics of the bryozoan genus Macropora (Cheilostomata).
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153 (1): 115-146. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00386.x
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