WoRMS taxon details
Dendrobeania fruticosa (Packard, 1863)
AphiaID: 111173
AphiaID: 111173
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Bryozoa (Phylum) > Gymnolaemata (Class) > Cheilostomatida (Order) > Neocheilostomatina (Suborder) > Flustrina (Infraorder) > Buguloidea (Superfamily) > Bugulidae (Family) > Dendrobeania (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Dendrobeania Levinsen, 1909 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Hayward, P.J. (2001). Bryozoa, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 325-333 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Dendrobeania fruticosa quadridentata (Loven, 1834) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Atlantic [details] Canada [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] North West Atlantic [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: small microorganisms, including diatoms and other unicellualr algae [details] Dimensions: up to 2-3 cm high [details] Distribution: lower North Shore [details] Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details] Predators: grazing organisms such as sea urchins and fish; also subject to competition and overgrowth from sponges, algae, and tunicates [details] Reproduction: sexual and asexual; bryozoan colonies consist of replicated series of zooids, each budded asexually from a predecessor. The founding zooid metamorphoses from the sexually produced larva. Hermaphroditic. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:111173 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
| ||||||||||
[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] | |||||||||||
| Citation: Gordon, D.; Hayward, P. (2013). Dendrobeania fruticosa (Packard, 1863). In: Bock, P.; Gordon, D. (2013) World List of Bryozoa. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=111173 on 2013-05-26 | |||||||||||
 The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License |