• DOI:10.2108/zsj.19.1279
Corpus ID: 40131611

A New Cheilostome Bryozoan with Gigantic Zooids from the North-West Pacific

@inproceedings{Grischenko2002ANC,
  title={A New Cheilostome Bryozoan with Gigantic Zooids from the North-West Pacific},
  author={A. V. Grischenko and P. Taylor and S. Mawatari},
  booktitle={Zoological science},
  year={2002}
}

• A. V. Grischenko, P. Taylor, S. Mawatari
• Published in Zoological science 2002
• Medicine, Biology

Abstract Gontarella gigantea gen. et sp. nov. is described from two stations, one in the Sea of Okhotsk and the second on the Pacific side of the Small Kuril Arc. This membraniporiform anascan cheilostome bryozoan has very large zooids, the largest known among extant sheet-like encrusting anascans. Comparative data on similar sheet-like cheilostomes gathered from the literature shows that the new species represents a conspicuous outlier in size, with the surface area of the zooid being… Expand

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