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Spathiporidae

GBIF:114099940

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Descriptions(1)

Colony boring into mollusc shells, comprising a branching, kenozooidal stolon, which buds cylindrical, pedunculate autozooids orientated obliquely to surface of substratum. Opening of autozooid boring typically elongate, comma-shaped. Peduncle of autozooid at or close to its proximal end. Specialised gonozooids present or absent.

(Hayward, 1985)

http://britishbryozoans.myspecies.info/node/1506//creativecommons.org/licences/by/3.0/

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Source Information

Bryozoa of the British Isles

checklist

Spencer Jones M, Rycroft S. Bryozoa of the British Isles. Scratchpads. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/pj8ayv accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-15.

GBIF Usage Key
114099940
Dataset Key
02c23566-1d5b-4f0c-9d2f-07f3ae24381b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
3506
Taxon ID
74420d1e-2dc8-472b-b8db-2fd51c354834
Last Crawled
2/7/2026
Last Interpreted
2/7/2026