Systematics of interstitial encrusting bryozoans from southeastern Brazil
Author
Winston, Judith E.
Author
Vieira, Leandro M.
text
Zootaxa
2013
3710
2
101
146
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3710.2.1
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1175-5326
248125
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Genus
Rosulapelta
gen. nov.
Type
species.
Rosulapelta rosetta
sp. nov.
Etymology.
From Latin
rosula
, little rose, and
peltus
, small shield, for the characteristic decoration of frontal shield.
Diagnosis.
Zooids with oral spines, a raised costal shield reduced to a rosette, a small porous area surrounded by a circular rim, and smooth or pseudoporous hyperstomial ooecium not closed by operculum.