RECENT BRYOZOANS FROM SOUTHERN SAFAGA BAY, RED SEA COAST, EGYPT

Journal Article

• Magazine \ Newspaper: Egypt. Jour. Paleontol.
• Volume Number: 4
• Pages: 199-230

Publication Abstract

Twenty-eight bryozoan species have been identified for the first time from the Recent coral
reefs and sediments of the southern Safaga bay, Red Sea coast, Egypt. Among the identified
taxa, twenty-six species belong to the order Cheilostomata and the rest to the order
cyclostomata. Schizosmittna safagaensis, Smittina avicularis, S. regularis and Celleporina
abbassi are believed to be new. Sixteen bryozoans are encrusting and have membraniporiform
and celleporiform zoarial qrowth-torms, and twelve are erect and are vinculariiform, cellariiform
and catenicellifom. Nearly all identified bryozoans are of Indo-Pacific affinity, and very rare
elements are also recorded from the Atlantic-Mediterranean realm.