Schizoporella unicornis (Johnston in Wood, 1844)
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https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v118/i4/2018/122918 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039B8789-087B-FFE4-FC88-FDAEFAE62597 |
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Felipe |
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Schizoporella unicornis |
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22. Schizoporella unicornis View in CoL (Johnston in Wood, 1844), (Plate 3c)
Locality: Rathnagiri, Maharashtra, 16° 99’ 92.1 N
Substratum: Boat scrapping.
Description: Colony is encrusting, frequently multilaminar. Autozooids are large; mostly rectangular in shape with wide, squared distal end with single adventitious avicularia. Frontal shield is convex, covered with numerous irregularly arranged pseudopores and deep marginal areolar pores. Umbo is present behind the aperture. Primary orifice broader than long forming a wide D-shape, with U- shaped sinus proximally. Rostrum is acute with concave sides and upturned tip. Opesia is rounded, D shaped and the crossbar is without columella. Mandible is acutely pointed with distal tip curved upwards. Ovicells are porous, striated and often decorated with marginal costae.
Records from Indian waters: Kerala and Maharashtra.
Distribution: Northeast Atlantic, from northwest Africa and Spain to the Faeroes and Western Norway.
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