Biflustra perambulata n. sp. (Cheilostomata: Bryozoa), a new alien species from Cochin Harbour, Kerala, India
Author
Louis, Soja
text
Zootaxa
2009
2066
59
68
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.186996
0922cb6a-7528-4b89-9010-7d602861702e
1175-5326
186996
Family
Membraniporidae
Busk, 1852
Diagnosis.
Colony encrusting, sheet-like, unilamellar, or with erect, frondose, tubular or vincularian growths from an encrusting base. Zooids elongate-oval (peri-ancestrular) to mostly rectangular, the membranous frontal wall covering the entire opesia or there is an area of proximal gymnocyst. A proximal cryptocystal shelf, with or without granulations and/or denticles, variably developed or lacking altogether. No avicularia. Polypide with an intertentacular organ. Ovicells absent, oligolecithal eggs released to the sea where they develop into planktonic cyphonautes larvae. Ancestrula twinned, constituting a diagnostic apomorphy for the family (
Taylor & Monks 1997
).