Marine bryozoans of Gujarat and Maharashtra Author Venkatraman, C. Zoological Survey of India, M- Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India; cvramanmbs @ gmail. com Author Padmanaban, P. Zoological Survey of India, 130, Santhome High Road, Chennai - 600028, Tamil Nadu, India Author Louis, Soja St. Theresa College for Women, Ernakulam, Kochi - 682011, Kerala, India Author Shrinivaasu, S. National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management, Anna University Campus, Chennai - 600 025, Tamil Nadu, India text Records of the Zoological Survey of India 2018 118 4 389 404 journal article 10.26515/rzsi/v118/i4/2018/122918 2581-8686 13183723 17. Smittipora cordiformis Harmer, 1926 (Plate 5b) Locality : Devbagh, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra , 15° 99’ 28.8 N Substratum : Encrusting on molluscan shell Description: Colony encrusting. Autozooids are hexagonal or sometimes polygonal, concave, separated by marginal rim and distinct sutures. Membraneous frontal membrane translucent, light orange-brown, covering the sparsely granular cryptocystal frontal space, opesia small, an elongate D-shape, in distal half of zooid, surrounded by frontal cryptocyst. Operculum dark brown-orange in colour, smaller than opesia, lacking any discernible marginal sclerite. Avicularia and autozooids are narrower and apparently torqued towards its sibling autozooid. Cryptocyst granular,concave, opesia elongate oval, distally located, proximal border denticulate, smooth distally, a pair of condyles developed approximately two-thirds along each lateral wall; distal end of avicularium drawn to a point, turned towards its sibling zooid and channeled to accept the mandibular rachis; mandible long; rachis light chocolate brown in colour, hooked at its tip, translucent light orange-brown baldes; fertile zooids similar to in size to autozooids but with dimorphic opesia. Opesial shape; Avicularian shape with its pointed distal end and turned towards its sibling zooid. Remarks: Recorded for the first time in India . Distribution: Various Shiboga stations in the Indo-Australian archipelago, Ceylon and Indo-Pacific.