Catenicella uberrima (Harmer, 1957)

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 : 392

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https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v118/i4/2018/122918

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scientific name

Catenicella uberrima (Harmer, 1957)
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2. Catenicella uberrima (Harmer, 1957) View in CoL (Plate 4a)

Locality: Sikka, Jamnagar , Gujarat (22° 27’ 57.4 N). Substratum: Dead coral rubble .

Description: Colony delicate, branched and arborescent. Orifice semicircular with very shallow sinus and two small sclerites. Scapular chamber well developed; a small avariculam with triangular mandible, present between the infra and suprascapular chambers; Ooecium slightly longer than wide, overlapping the distal zooid up to half of its length; base of the distal border beaded wide and almost reaching the scapular chamber, median frontal windows present.

Remarks: Recorded for the first time in India.

Distribution: Indonesia, Western Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, Western Africa and Brazil.

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