Revision of the genus Crepis Jullien (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) with description of a new genus and family and notes on Chlidoniidae
Author
Reverter-Gil, Oscar
Author
Souto, Javier
Author
Fernández-Pulpeiro, Eugenio
text
Zootaxa
2011
2993
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.203919
2af3e798-9a86-4a06-b094-009841e06894
1175-5326
203919
Genus
Crepis
Jullien, 1882
Diagnosis (corrected).
Colony consisting of uniserial creeping autozooids; these with an oval distal portion prolonged proximally into a slender tubular cauda. Gymnocyst reduced. Cryptocyst extensive, without opesiules, surrounded by raised rim. Opesia terminal, as long as wide, larger than the operculum. Branching lateral. Ovicell prominent, not closed by the operculum; ectooecium mostly membranous, with a peripheral calcified rim; endooecium granular. Spines and heterozooids absent.
Type
species:
Crepis longipes
Jullien, 1882
(by original designation).