Cranosina coronata
| Main Authors: | Taylor, Paul D., Tan, Shau-Hwai Aileen |
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| Format: | info publication-taxonomictreatment Journal |
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, 2015
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/3793813 |
Daftar Isi:
- Cranosina coronata (Hincks, 1881) Fig. 6 Membranipora coronata Hincks, 1881: 147, pl. 10, fig. 1. Cranosina coronata – Chimonides & Cook 1994: 44, fig. 1a. Material MALAYSIA: MSL BRY011, Pantai Pasir Hitam, Langkawi, collected intertidally encrusting cobbles from coral reef. Description Colony encrusting, multiserial, unilamellar; growing edge stepped, revealing distolateral pore windows, generally three in each distolateral wall. Ancestrula and early astogeny not observed. Autozooids subhexagonal to almost diamond-shaped, stout, about 0.40–0.50 mm long by 0.34–0.44 mm wide; zooidal boundaries marked by a narrow fissure; opesia occupying most of frontal surface, ovoidal; cryptocyst well developed proximally and laterally, sloping inwards, pustulose, the pustules tending to be radially aligned, especially towards inner side of cryptocyst; gymnocyst sometimes present distolaterally; spines lacking. Ovicells inconspicuous, ooecia small. Intramural buds present. Avicularia present distally of autozooids (Fig. 6C), small, transversely orientated, with long, open-ended rostrum. Remarks According to Tilbrook et al. (2001: p. 45), Cranosina coronata is common throughout the Indo-West Pacific.
- Published as part of Taylor, Paul D. & Tan, Shau-Hwai Aileen, 2015, Cheilostome Bryozoa from Penang and Langkawi, Malaysia, pp. 1-34 in European Journal of Taxonomy 149 on pages 12-13, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2015.149, http://zenodo.org/record/3787554