Open AccessThe genus Anguisia as a model of a possible origin of erect growth in some Cyclostomatida (Bryozoa)
Author(s) -
OSTROVSKY ANDREW N.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
zoological journal of the linnean society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.148
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1096-3642
pISSN - 0024-4082
DOI - 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb00581.x
Subject(s) - biology , budding , bryozoa , genus , morphology (biology) , zoology , evolutionary biology , taxonomy (biology) , botany
A representative of the genus Anguisia Jullien, 1882 is recorded for the Southern Ocean for the first time. A detailed description of zooidal and colonial morphology of the new species, Anguisia jullieni , is given with special regard to budding. A mode of budding identical to that in most crisiids is found in fertile erect branches. A possible way that erect branches in crisiids may have evolved by modification of peristomial budding is proposed.