Barrosia, Souto, Javier, Reverter-Gil, Oscar & Fernández-Pulpeiro, Eugenio, 2010

Souto, Javier, Reverter-Gil, Oscar & Fernández-Pulpeiro, Eugenio, 2010, Bryozoa from detritic bottoms in the Menorca Channel (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean), with notes on the genus Cribellopora, Zootaxa 2536, pp. 36-52 : 38-39

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.196619

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6206584

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Barrosia
status

gen. nov.

Genus Barrosia n. gen.

Type species. Barrosia balearica n. sp.

Diagnosis. Colony encrusting, unilaminar. Autozooidal frontal surface almost entirely membranous. Articulated oral spines present. Gymnocyst vestigial, comprising only a narrow rim that bears articulated periopesial spines; cryptocyst absent. Mural septula present, uniporous. Ovicell kenozooidal, with distal erect hollow spines and a large window in the ectooecium; uniporous distal septula present. Avicularia absent. Ancestrula tatiform.

Etymology. The genus is dedicated to Mr Manuel Gerónimo Barroso, the first Spanish bryozoologist, who achieved much significant work on this group.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Perciformes

Family

Plesiopidae

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