CaRMS taxon details
basis of record
Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. <em>John Wiley & Sons, Inc.</em> 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p. [details]
additional source
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]
additional source
Winston, J. E.; Hayward, P. J. (2012). The marine bryozoans of the northeast coast of the United States: Maine to Virginia. <em>Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoir.</em> 11, 1-180., available online at http://vmnh.net/store.cfm?itemID=142 page(s): 160 [details]
additional source
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
From other sources
Diet small microorganisms, including diatoms and other unicellualr algae [details]
Dimensions colony developing dense, bushy tufts, up to 3 cm high [details]
Distribution north of Cape Cod in the western Atlantic [details]
Habitat sublittoral; sessile, colonial on hard substratum epifauna in the marine environment [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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