WoRMS name details
Lepralia edax (Busk)
153823 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:153823)
unaccepted (synonym)
Species
- Subspecies Lepralia edax janthina Smitt, 1873 accepted as Hippotrema janthina (Smitt, 1873)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Cellepora edax Busk, 1859) Busk, G. (1859). A monograph of the fossil Polyzoa of the Crag. The Palaeontographical Society, London, 1-136, available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/02693445.1859.12027922
page(s): 59-60 [details]
page(s): 59-60 [details]
WoRMS (2025). Lepralia edax (Busk). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153823 on 2025-04-30
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Cellepora edax Busk, 1859) Busk, G. (1859). A monograph of the fossil Polyzoa of the Crag. The Palaeontographical Society, London, 1-136, available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/02693445.1859.12027922
page(s): 59-60 [details]
basis of record Prenant, M. (1931). Sur une collection de bryozoaires de la Mer du Nord appartenant au Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique [On a collection of bryozoans of the North Sea belonging to the Musée Royal D'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique]. <i>Bull. Mus. royal d'Hist. Nat. Belg./Med. Kon. Natuurhist. Mus. Belg. 7(17)</i>: 1-6 (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 59-60 [details]
basis of record Prenant, M. (1931). Sur une collection de bryozoaires de la Mer du Nord appartenant au Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique [On a collection of bryozoans of the North Sea belonging to the Musée Royal D'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique]. <i>Bull. Mus. royal d'Hist. Nat. Belg./Med. Kon. Natuurhist. Mus. Belg. 7(17)</i>: 1-6 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (1999). Cheilostomatous Bryozoa: part 2 Hippothooidea - Celleporoidea: notes for the identification of British species. 2nd ed.. <i>Synopses of the British fauna (new series)</i>, 14. Field Studies Council: Shrewsbury, UK. ISBN 1-85153-263-3. vii, 416 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]




