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Neogene Cupuladriidae of tropical America. II: taxonomy of recent Discoporella from opposite sides of the Isthmus of Panama

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Amalia Herrera-Cubilla ,
Matthew H. Dick ,
Joann Sanner  and
Jeremy B. C. Jackson
Amalia Herrera-Cubilla
Affiliation:
1Center for Tropical Paleoecology and Archeology, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Box 0843-03092, Panama, Republic of Panama,
Matthew H. Dick
Affiliation:
2COE Program on Neo-Science of Natural History, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan,
Joann Sanner
Affiliation:
3Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560,
Jeremy B. C. Jackson
Affiliation:
1Center for Tropical Paleoecology and Archeology, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Box 0843-03092, Panama, Republic of Panama, 4Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0244,
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Abstract

We used up to 30 morphological characters to discriminate and describe species of the genus Discoporella based on complete colony specimens collected from both coasts of the Isthmus of Panama. The characters included zooidal characters and colony-level characters such as colony size and basal granule density. Species were classified by a series of multivariate cluster and linear discriminant analyses until the majority of specimens were assigned to their putative species with high confidence. In the first phase of the analyses, the colonies were grouped by ocean (Caribbean versus eastern Pacific), discriminated predominantly by colony size and basal granule density, characters that might reflect ecophenotypic responses to different conditions in primary productivity and predation between the two oceans. Further analyses of these two groups separately resulted in the discrimination of seven species. Five new species from the Caribbean (D. scutella, D. peltifera, D. bocasdeltoroensis, D. terminata and D. triangula), and two from the eastern Pacific (D. marcusorum and D. cookae). Of these, D. cookae had been identified previously as D. umbellata, a species once considered cosmopolitan, with a range spanning the Caribbean and eastern Pacific coasts of America. With the exception of one genetically defined clade represented by only two specimens, the correspondence of classification between groups discriminated morphometrically by separate step-wise multivariate analyses and those detected by a previous genetic analysis, ranged from 91% to 100%. In analyses of all specimens combined or separated by ocean, but using the total number of characters, 20% to 30% of the specimens could not be distinguished morphometrically from extremely similar sympatric species or cognate (“geminate”) species from the opposite ocean. Diversity was higher in the Caribbean compared to the eastern Pacific, which reflects a similar pattern recently described for the genus Cupuladria from the same region.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 82 , Issue 2 , March 2008 , pp. 279 - 298
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