Mucropetraliella thenardii (Audouin, 1826)
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https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v118/i4/2018/122918 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039B8789-0877-FFE9-FC88-F970FE3522B0 |
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Felipe |
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Mucropetraliella thenardii (Audouin, 1826) |
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9. Mucropetraliella thenardii (Audouin, 1826) View in CoL (Plate 2a)
Locality: Dwaraka , Gujarat, 22° 24’ 50.3 N
Substratum: Coral rocks
Description: Colony is encrusting. Autozooids long, convex with inconspicuous septal lines. Primary orifice is circular, wider than long. Two lateral adventious avicularia, oral in position, placed at the top of raised platforms. A spatula tesuboral avicularia noticed in some zooids. Ovicells are smaller than in most species of the genus, the lip is considerably raised above the level of the operculum.
Records from Indian waters: Laccadives Islands and Madras; Indian waters.
Distribution: Egypt; Port Jackson; Ceylon, Strait of Makassar, Celebes Sea.
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