Mourellina, Reverter-Gil, Oscar, Souto, Javier & Fernández-Pulpeiro, Eugenio, 2011

Reverter-Gil, Oscar, Souto, Javier & Fernández-Pulpeiro, Eugenio, 2011, Revision of the genus Crepis Jullien (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) with description of a new genus and family and notes on Chlidoniidae, Zootaxa 2993, pp. 1-22 : 14

Genus Mourellina n. gen.

Diagnosis. Colony repent or erect. Zooids with an adnate, long, tubular, proximal portion and a distal projecting portion that bears the membranous part of the frontal wall, which faces proximally. Cryptocyst reduced to a small lip continuous with the tubular section, projecting horizontally into the body cavity of the distal section. Operculum with a crescentic marginal sclerite. Branching lateral, from the proximal tubular section of the zooid. Polypide with few tentacles. External spines absent. Internal spinules and vicarious avicularia absent or present.

Type species: Crepis decussata Harmer, 1926 .

Etymology. This new genus is dedicated to Francisco Antonio Mourelle de la Rúa (1750–1820), a Galician naval officer who travelled extensively throughout the Pacific Ocean serving the Spanish Crown. The information in his journal was later used by James Cook and Jean-François de La Pérouse. Gender feminine.