WoRMS taxon details
Bugula turrita (Desor, 1848)
AphiaID: 159783
AphiaID: 159783
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Bryozoa (Phylum) > Gymnolaemata (Class) > Cheilostomatida (Order) > Neocheilostomatina (Suborder) > Flustrina (Infraorder) > Buguloidea (Superfamily) > Bugulidae (Family) > Bugula (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Bugula Oken, 1815 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: 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] basis of record: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] basis of record: Ryland, J.S., and P.J. Hayward. 1991. Marine flora and fauna of the northeastern United States: erect Bryozoa. NOAA Technical Report NMFS 99. 48 p. [details] basis of record: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details] | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Cobscook Bay [details] Gulf of Maine [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (74 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 7 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Bryozoa Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: small microorganisms, including diatoms and other unicellualr algae [details] Dimensions: up to 10 cm tall [details] Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), lower St. Lawrence estuary; Prince Edward Island (from the Northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway); Massachusetts to Florida [details] Habitat: infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [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] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159783 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bock, P. (2013). Bugula turrita (Desor, 1848). 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=159783 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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