Puellina capronensis Winston 2005 ...

• Main Author: Judith L Winston
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Bryozoa; Gymnolaemata; Cheilostomatida; Cribrilinidae; Puellina; Puellina capronensis; Hutchinson Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6084747; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6084747

Puellina capronensis Winston, 2005 (Fig. 14; Table 13) Cribrilaria innominata: Winston & Håkansson 1986: 18, figs 40, 42, 44. Puellina capronensis Winston, 2005: 35, fig. 97. Material examined. VMNH no. 610.00, holotype, Capron Shoal, near Buoy 10 A, off South Hutchinson Island, St. Lucie Co., Florida, 9 July 1998, J. E. Winston coll.; VMNH no. 70617, 70618, 70619; USNM no. 1283239, 1283240. Description. Colonies (Fig. 14 A) encrusting, biserial to multiserial on calcareous substrata ranging from very small sand-size grains to shells and Oculina branches. Zooids ovoid, boundaries marked by deep grooves (Fig. 14 B, C). Orifice semicircular with 5, thick, distal spines around autozooid rims and 4 spines on ovicelled zooids. Frontal shield formed by 10–15 fused costae, with radiating rows of intercostal lacunae in between; outer edges of costae thickened and raised into tubercles, giving zooids a thick-rimmed appearance. A larger suboral foramen proximal to orifice, the first pair of costae forming a raised ... : Published as part of Judith L Winston, 2016, Bryozoa of Floridan Oculina reefs, pp. 1-81 in Zootaxa 4071 (1) on pages 27-28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4071.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/260490 ...