Trypostega henrychaneyi Tilbrook, 2006
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https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v118/i4/2018/122918 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039B8789-0874-FFE4-FC95-FB96FD482182 |
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Felipe |
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Trypostega henrychaneyi Tilbrook, 2006 |
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19. Trypostega henrychaneyi Tilbrook, 2006 View in CoL (Plate 5d)
Locality: Kolamb creek , Sindhudurg, Maharashtra , 16° 07’
51.7 N
Substratum: Intertidal rock
Description: Colony forming broad, thin sheets. Autozooids diamond-shaped to irregularly polygonal in shape slightly convex, separated by shallow grooves. Frontal shield smooth, perforated by numerous evenly spaced, small round pores. Orifice pear-shaped, longer than wide, deep, orbicular anter, poster deep, narrow, cup-shaped, condyles short, triangular proximally directed. Ovicell prominent perforated as frontal shield, oval, longer than wide, a slightly raised median lobe, orifice of ovicellatezoids as wide as long. Zooeciules distal to all autozoids and ovicells, calcification similar to autozooids, orifice small anter deep, poster shallow, mandible rounded.
Remarks: Recorded for the first time in India. Distribution: Tropical Pacific ocean from the Jicaron islands, off Panama, to the Marquessas Islands, Fiji and the Loyality Islands, westwards to Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef, Torres Strait, New Guinea, Sulu Archipelago, South China Sea, to the Red Sea and Solomon Islands.
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