Some bathyal cheilostome Bryozoa (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) from the Canary Islands (Spain, Eastern Atlantic), with descriptions of three new species, a new genus, and a new family
Author
López-Fé, C. M.
text
Journal of Natural History
2006
2006-12-01
40
29 - 31
1801
1812
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930601043763
journal article
10.1080/00222930601043763
1464-5262
5232459
Family
ACORANIIDAE
fam. nov.
Diagnosis
Autozooids with cryptocystidean frontal wall. Orifice with well-defined anter and poster, and condyles. Ovicell hyperstomial, not closed by the operculum, prominent, with an imperforate calcified entooecium, and a mostly membranous ectooecium. Interzooidal communication by uniporous septula. Avicularia may be present.