Adeonellopsis MacGillivray, 1886

Almeida, Ana C. S., Souza, Facelucia B. C., Sanner, Joann & Vieira, Leandro M., 2015, Taxonomy of recent Adeonidae (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) from Brazil, with the description of four new species, Zootaxa 4013 (3), pp. 348-368 : 350

Genus Adeonellopsis MacGillivray, 1886

Type species. Adeonellopsis foliacea MacGillivray, 1886

Diagnosis (modified from Cheetham et al. 2007). Colony rigidly erect or rarely encrusting. Autozooidal frontal shields imperforate except for areolae extending entirely around periphery and centrally placed spiramen of varying complexity. Primary orifice almost semicircular, without distal shelf; secondary orifice similar in shape; condyles and spines absent. Suboral and commonly frontal and/or interzooidal avicularia all with short condyles. Frontal and interzooidal avicularia typically developed on lateral margins of colony branches. Gonozooids may be morphologically modified or not from autozooids, commonly swollen, with widened orifices and/or enlarged spiramina.