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Note on the Bryozoan Pustulopora pustulosa (Goldfuss)
Author(s) -
BROOD KRISTER
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
zoologica scripta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.204
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1463-6409
pISSN - 0300-3256
DOI - 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1978.tb00595.x
Subject(s) - biology , bundle , zoology , evolutionary biology , materials science , composite material
Topotype material of Pustulopora pustulosa (Goldfuss), the type species of Pustulopora Blainville, is investigated and its structure described. It has a distinctive budding pattern in which autozooecia are formed from an axial bundle of zooecia. The gonozooecium is of ‘ Mecynoecia ’‐ shape.