New taxa of Japanese and New Zealand Eurystomellidae (Phylum Bryozoa) and their phylogenetic relationships
Author
Gordon, Dennis P.
Author
Mawatari, Shunsuke F.
Author
Kajihara, Hiroshi
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2002
2002-10-31
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https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00020.x
journal article
5433
10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00020.x
61176e3b-9cfb-499f-be30-cfde91a58a48
0024-4082
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EURYSTOMELLA
LEVINSEN, 1909
Diagnosis
Colony encrusting, multiserial. Autozooids with smooth gymnocystal frontal shield perforated by one to several large foramina. Zooidal orifices with proximolateral indentations, and shallow excavations in the adjacent gymnocyst; proximal rim of orifice with median suture. No spines or avicularia. Maternal orifice usually slightly larger than autozooidal orifice, or obviously so; brooding internal, with a distal ovicelllike kenozooid with a central perforation; kenozooid extending to basal wall. Ancestrula with membranous frontal wall only, no spines. Interzooidal communications via basal pore-chambers.
Type
species:
Lepralia foraminigera
Hincks, 1883
, by original designation.