Trematooecia clivulata Tilbrook, 2006

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Trematooecia clivulata Tilbrook, 2006

Holoporella turrita: Canu & Bassler 1929: 420 , text-fig. 164, pl. 59, figs 1–5. [ Philippines]

Cigclisula turrita: Harmer 1957 (in part): 1059, pl. 69, figs 21, 23–24. [ Indonesia]

Trematooecia turrita: Ristedt & Hillmer 1985: 137 , pl. 2, fig. 7. [ Philippines]

Trematooecia clivulata Tilbrook, 2006: 287 , pl. 62D–F. [ China Sea, Philippines, Vanuatu, Fiji]

Remarks. Trematooecia clivulata is characterized by zooids that are almost flat, a secondary orifice bordered by 4–5 solid tubercles, no suboral avicularia, a frontal avicularium associated with each zooid and an ectooecium with a narrow membranous window ( Tilbrook 2006). The species was previously misidentified as C. turrita , but the two species are distinguished by the shape of the primary orifice (larger in T. clivulata ) and the surface of the ectooecium (slit-like membranous window in T. clivulata , pseudoporous in C. turrita ).

Distribution. Indo-Pacific: China Sea, Fiji, Philippines, Solomon Islands and Taiwan.