Celleporina costazii (Audouin, 1826)

Venkatraman, C., Padmanaban, P., Louis, Soja & Shrinivaasu, S., 2018, Marine bryozoans of Gujarat and Maharashtra, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (4), pp. 389-404 : 392

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v118/i4/2018/122918

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039B8789-0870-FFEF-FC95-FF1BFBD0235D

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Felipe

scientific name

Celleporina costazii (Audouin, 1826)
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3. Celleporina costazii (Audouin, 1826) View in CoL (Plate 1b)

Locality: Narara, Jamnagar, 22° 28’ 49.9 N

Substratum: Dead coral rubble.

Description: Colony multilaminar; autozooids small; recumbent; convex, separated by deep grooves. Frontal shield smoothly calcified, Avicularia resting on either side on peristome rim, rostrum acute, triangular, slightly hooked and raised from rim distally, complete crossbar, distally directed. Vicarious avicularia large, sporadic, elevated on inflated cystid, the proximal portion at a angle to the widely spatualte rostrum, small rostral palate, large oval rostral opesia, proximal opesia D-shaped, randomly orientated. Ovicells not observed. Circular primary orifice; Small, paired, distally directed triangular ovicularia.

Distribution: Indo-Pacific

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