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Biochemical genetics and taxonomy in Plumatella coralloides and P. fungosa , and a key to the British and European Plumatellidae (Bryozoa: Phylactolaemata)
Author(s) -
MUNDY S. P.,
THORPE J. P.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
freshwater biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.297
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1365-2427
pISSN - 0046-5070
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2427.1980.tb01226.x
Subject(s) - bryozoa , taxonomy (biology) , repens , biology , key (lock) , synonym (taxonomy) , ecology , zoology , botany , genus
SUMMARY. Plumatella coralloides Allman 1850 has in the past been regarded as a synonym or variety of a number of species. Specimens conforming to Allman's (1850) original description have been found in a pond at Millwood, South Wales, and electrophoretic techniques have been used to examine genetic differences between this material, P. repens and P. fungosa . The results show that neither P. repens nor P. fungosa is conspecific with the Millwood material. Morphological evidence suggests that it should be regarded as P. coralloides , and it is therefore concluded that P. coralloides is a valid species. A revised key to the British and European Phylactolaemata (Bryozoa) is provided, together with some notes on the distribution of each species in Britain.