Myriapora de Blainville, 1830

Type species: Millepora truncata Pallas, 1766

Synonyms Author Type Species
Myriopora Ehrenberg, 1839 No type species traced
Myriozoon Ehrenberg, 1834 Millepora truncata Pallas, 1766
Myriozoum (status?) Donati, 1750 Millepora truncata Pallas, 1766
Truncularia Wiegmann & Ruthe, 1832 Truncularia teres Wiegmann & Ruthe, 1832 = Millepora truncata Pallas 1766

The genus Leieschara may also be a subjective synonym.

This genus includes the species:

  1. Myriapora? beyrichi
    		2.  (Stoliczka, 1862) Paleogene Oligocene Germany WoRMS 1412304
  2. Myriapora bugei
    		3. d'Hondt, 1975 Recent NE Atlantic WoRMS 470126
  3. Myriapora fungiformis
    		4. Vavra, 1983 L. Oligocene Germany WoRMS 1405639
  4. Myriapora kuhni
    		5.  Vávra, 2011 Paleogene Oligocene Germany WoRMS 1405640
  5. Myriapora operculata
    (Status?)
    		6.  (Canu & Bassler, 1935) Neogene Pleistocene Australia Victoria. WoRMS 1412305
  6. Myriapora orientalis
    		7. (Kluge, 1929) Recent Siberia WoRMS 423543
  7. Myriapora sciutoi
    		8.  Rosso & di Martino, 2015 Neogene Miocene-Pliocene Italy, Morocco WoRMS 1405641
  8. Myriapora simplex
    		9.  (Busk, 1884) Recent South Atlantic WoRMS 827871
  9. Myriapora truncata
    		10. (Pallas, 1766) Recent Mediterranean WoRMS 111435

    The following list includes several species described as Myriozoum which have not been revised. I simply don't know their current status, and consider them to be species dubia:

  10. Myriozoum honoluluense
    		11.  Busk, 1884 Recent East Pacific Hawai’i WoRMS 471066
  11. Myriozoum punctatum
    		12.  (Phillippi, 1844) Paleogene Oligocene Germany WoRMS 1412306
  12. Myriozoum serratum
    		13.  Mawatari, 1952 Recent Northwest Pacific - Japan WoRMS 471064
  13. Myriozoum superficiale
    		14.  Ortmann, 1890 Recent Northwest Pacific - Japan WoRMS 1033499
  14. Myriozoum tenue
    		15.  O'Donoghue & O'Donoghue, 1923 Recent Northeast Pacific Canada WoRMS 471065
  15. Myriozoum tenuitruncatum
    		16.  Vigneaux, 1948 Paleogene Oligocene France WoRMS 1405642

Several species identified as Myriozoum are unrecognisable at present: Myriozoum clavatum Meneghini in De Amicis, 1885 ; Myriozoum fervens De Gregorio, 1890, and Myriozoum propepunctatum De Gregorio, 1890.
Myriapora gracilis Michelin, 1842 is included in the list of Recent species by Horowitz, and a type specimen is located in the MNHN, Paris, but I have not seen this name in the "Iconographie", and there is little more information.

Myriapora truncata Thanks to Wolfgang Seifarth and Marine Flatworms of the World for photos.

Myriapora truncata at Salento Sommerso.

Myriapora orientalis at Atlas of Arctic Bryozoa.

Harmer notebook - entry for Myriapora
Harmer notebook - entry for Myriopora
Harmer notebook - entry for Myriozoon
Harmer notebook - entry for Truncularia

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