WoRMS taxon details
Eucratea wallaysii Westendorp, 1843
AphiaID: 153845
AphiaID: 153845
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Bryozoa (Phylum) > Gymnolaemata (Class) > Cheilostomatida (Order) > Scrupariina (Suborder) > Scruparioidea (Superfamily) > Eucrateidae (Family) > Eucratea (Genus) |
| Status | species inquirenda (From the description I am uncertain if it is a bryozoan.) | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Eucratea Lamouroux, 1812 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Westendorp, G.D. (1843). Recherches sur les Polypiers flexibles de la Belgique, et particulièrement des environs d'Ostende. Annales de la Société Médico-Chirurgicale de Bruges IV: 5-48, 1 plate (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Nieuwpoort [details] | ||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | ||||||||||
| Note |
Validity: The illustration of Eucratea wallaysii suggests that it is not only not a species of Eucratea, but not even a bryozoan. The branching is wrong. The other drawings on the page are reasonably well depicted so the one of E. wallaysii should be taken to be more or less accurate. But he doesn't indicate zooids, the internodes are of unequal width, and branching is not uniformly dichotomous (if this really were Eucratea). Could he have mistakenly depicted an alga? [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:153845 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bock, P. (2013). Eucratea wallaysii Westendorp, 1843. 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=153845 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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