The genus Anguisia as a model of a possible origin of erect growth in some Gyclostomatida (Bryozoa)

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Abstract

A representative of the genus Anguisia Jullien, 1882 is recorded for the Southern Ocean for the first time. A detailed description of zooidal and colonial morphology of the new species, Anguisia jullieni, is given with special regard to budding. A mode of budding identical to that in most crisiids is found in fertile erect branches. A possible way that erect branches in crisiids may have evolved by modification of peristomial budding is proposed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)355-367
Number of pages13
JournalZoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Volume124
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 1998
Externally publishedYes

Funding

The author is greatly indebted to Professor Dr Claus Nielsen, Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, and Dr Paul D. Taylor, Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, London, who read an earlier draft of this paper and provided much encouragement. Sincere thanks are also given to Tom Schiøtte, Geert Brovad, Drs Mary E. Petersen and Margit Jensen, Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, and Dorthe P. Lahrmann, University of Copenhagen, for their kind assistance with the preparation of the manuscript. The author thanks the Soros Foundation, the Lerner-Gray Fund for Marine Research (American Museum of Natural History) and the Magistrate of St Petersburg for financial support.

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 106054 Zoology

Keywords

  • Antarctic
  • Budding type
  • Crisiidae
  • Evolution
  • New species
  • Stomatoporiforms

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