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.
Lz | Wz | Lo | Wo | Lov | Wov | |
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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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