Striatodoma dorothea (Cheilostomatida : Tessaradomidae), a new genus and species of bryozoan from deep water off California

Authors
Winston, JE Beaulieu, SE
Citation
Je. Winston et Se. Beaulieu, Striatodoma dorothea (Cheilostomatida : Tessaradomidae), a new genus and species of bryozoan from deep water off California, P BIOL SOC, 112(2), 1999, pp. 313-318
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Biology
Journal title
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON
ISSN journal
0006324X → ACNP
Volume
112
Issue
2
Year of publication
1999
Pages
313 - 318
Database
ISI
SICI code
0006-324X(19990615)112:2<313:SD(:TA>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
Striatodoma dorothea, a new genus and species of cheilostomate bryozoan, is described from material found attached to hexactinellid sponges and pogono phoran tubes at an abyssal station (4100 m depth) off central California. M embers of this new genus can be distinguished from other members of the fam ily Tessaradomidae by the presence of biserial, rather than quadriserial br anches, and a peristomial sinus, rather than an enclosed spiramen. Two othe r Pacific species, Diplonotos striatum Canu & Bassler, 1930, and Tessaradom a bifax Cheetham, 1972, are transferred to Striatodoma.