VITRUMIDAE, Kott, 2009
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930902993708 |
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DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5217188 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03849746-FFF8-8319-FE43-B688FC42B9B6 |
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treatment provided by |
Felipe |
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scientific name |
VITRUMIDAE |
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fam. nov. |
Family VITRUMIDAE View in CoL new family
Type genus: Vitrum gen. nov.
The family is distinguished by its glassy, stalked colonies, separately opening zooids with three long rows of stigmata, short abdomina with gonads in the gut loop, a single large larva incubating in a thoracic brood pouch, long inverted tubular larval adhesive organs and a vegetative stolon. It is monotypic, the only species being Vitrum mjoebergi (Hartmeyer, 1919) the type species of the genus.
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