Steginoporella buskii Harmer, 1900

Venkatraman, C., Padmanaban, P., Louis, Soja & Shrinivaasu, S., 2018, Marine bryozoans of Gujarat and Maharashtra, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (4), pp. 389-404 : 398

24. Steginoporella buskii Harmer, 1900 (Plate 3d)

Locality: Malvan port, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra,16° 04’

09.8 N

Substratum: Dead coral rubble and gorgonians.

Description: Colony is encrusting, forming flat sheets. Autozooids usually large, rounded distally, concave proximally and distinct. Frontal area is covered by thick, opaque membrane, greenish-coloured, bordered by a thin, raised, mural rim. The A-zooids squarish to rectangular in shape with semicircular operculum, as wide as zooid, less than half as long, crescentic sclerite and a sub marginal series of small teeth on inner surface. B-zooids are with larger, wider operculum, as wide as zooid, wishbone-shaped sclerite and a sub marginal series of small teeth on inner surface. Gymnocyst barely visible as a smooth, raised distal margin surrounding and supporting operculum, ending at lateral opercular condyles. Cryptocyst are provided with pores sometimes numerous at the region where it ascends, the marginal