Cigclisula turrita (Smitt, 1873)

Judith L Winston, 2016, Bryozoa of Floridan Oculina reefs, Zootaxa 4071 (1), pp. 1-81 : 65-68

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Cigclisula turrita (Smitt, 1873)
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Cigclisula turrita (Smitt, 1873) View in CoL

( Fig. 37 View FIGURE 37 ; Table 36 View TABLE 36 )

Lepralia turrita Smitt, 1873: 65 , pl. 11, figs 226–228.

Holoporella turrita: Canu & Bassler 1923: 179 , pl. 46, fig. 1. Cigclisula turrita: Banta & Carson 1977: 400 , figs 4E, 7; Winston 1982: 147, fig. 79. Trematooecia turrita: Winston 2005: 105 , figs 291–297.

Cigclisula turrita: Almeida et al. 2014: 20 , fig. 11.

Material examined. VMNH no. 70658; USNM no. 1283261.

Description. Colonies encrusting, multilaminar ( Fig. 37 View FIGURE 37 A), developing into mounds a few mm in size, pale pink when alive. Even young colonies that are still unilaminar are conspicuously raised above substratum because of their deep-bodied zooids. Zooids with irregularly polygonal borders and central orifice surrounded by 4–5 flattipped spiniform tubercles ( Fig. 37 View FIGURE 37 D). Frontal shield granular, thickly calcified, with small pores scattered over surface. Orifice hoof-shaped, with evenly rounded anter and broad, shall poster demarcated by triangular condyles ( Fig. 37 View FIGURE 37 E). Oval adventitious avicularia in two size classes, the smaller with serrated distal rostral margins, usually buried in peristome between or at ends of tubercles; the larger with enlarged, more-spatulate mandible and smooth rostrum. Ooecia immersed in calcification of spines and peristome, opening into peristome; with frontal grid of small pores. Embryos red.

Remarks. Cigclisula turrita -like forms have a long history in the Caribbean-western Atlantic, and have undergone considerable radiation. Almeida et al. (2014) revised the genera Cigclisula , Trematooecia and Colatooecia , placing them in the celleporid family Colatooeciidae .

Distribution. Florida and Caribbean.

TABLE 36. Measurements in mm of Cigclisula turrita (Smitt, 1873).

  Lz Wz Lo Wo Lov Wov
N 18 18 18 18 5 5
Mean 0.563 0.476 0.170 0.153 0.274 0.432
SD 0.040 0.046 0.021 0.014 0.048 0.064
Min 0.504 0.378 0.126 0.126 0.198 0.342
Max 0.630 0.558 0.198 0.180 0.324 0.504
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