Caulibugula Caulibugula of the world. Hans De Blauwe Key created by Hans De Blauwe Restart from Caulibugula | Restart Completely | Select different key | Show legend

Characteristics  autozooid form        Bicellariella-like       Bugula-like       Bicellariella-like but with elongated opesia  Avicularia        absent       common, on almost all autozooids       rare, not on all autozooids       rare and large       proximal on the lower autozooids of a fan, progressively more distal on succeeding autozooids       common and large       only on the inner side of an autozooid at a bifurcation  bifurcation type        4       5  Colony adherent with        disc       rootlets, rhizoids  fans        biserial and normal to the frontal plane       biserial and zooids turning toward the middle of the branch       biserial and turned out       partly uniserial       fan starts with a short kenozooid followed by a pseudo-ancestrula       one single zooid between pseudo-ancestrula and biserial fan  pseudo-ancestrula a zooid or a kenozooid        kenozooid       autozooid(has a polypide or brown body)       intermediate (operculum, but no polypide)  pseudo-ancestrular form        Bugula-like, opesia large       turbinate with slit-like prolongation       turbinate with terminal oval opesia       twin-arranged       like a short stem-kenozooid  Spines on autozooids        absent       inner corner rounded or maximal 1 spine, outer corner maximal 1 spine       inner corner rounded or maximal 1 spine, outer corner maximal 2 spines       inner corner rounded or maximal 1 spine, outer corner maximal 3 spines       mostly 1 spine in the middle of the distal margin       4 or more long spines around opesia       presence of possibilities B or C and F in the same fan  Spines on pseudo-ancestrula        absent       5 (3 on one side, 2 on the opposite side)       6 (3 on both sides)       6 or more around a small opesia       8 ore more bordering opesia with slit-like prolongation       both corners with maximal 1 or 2 spines       4 (3 on one side, 1 on the oposite side)  Stem composed of a single row of elongated        Cilindrical uncalcified kenozooids       Kenozooids with lateral thickenings       Zooids, distally widening and shortening  Stem-(keno)zooids distally …. than proximally        shorter and narrower       not shorter       shorter and broader       alternate long and short (short = 1/3 of long)  Stem-kenozooids and/or pseudo-ancestrula annulated        Yes       No  Vesicles        not reported       1 or 2 on each zooid near the first and second bifurcation and on the stem zooids       only on rhizoids       on stem-kenozooids

Remaining taxa: Caulibugula annulata (Maplestone, 1879) Caulibugula arcasounensis De Blauwe, 2005 Caulibugula armata Verrill, 1900 Caulibugula aspinosa Mawatari, 1956 Caulibugula binata Liu, 1985 Caulibugula bocki Silén, 1941 Caulibugula caliculata (Levinsen, 1909) Caulibugula californica Robertson, 1905 Caulibugula ciliata (Robertson, 1905) Caulibugula ciliatoidea Liu, 1990 Caulibugula dendrograpta (Waters, 1913) Caulibugula exilis (MacGillivray, 1890) Caulibugula glabra (Hincks, 1883) Caulibugula gracilenta Liu, 1985 Caulibugula haddoni (Kirkpatrick, 1890) Caulibugula hainanica Liu, 1984 Caulibugula hastingsae Caulibugula inermis Harmer, 1926 Caulibugula irregularis Liu, 1985 Caulibugula levinseni Osburn, 1940 Caulibugula longiconica Liu, 1985 Caulibugula longirostrata Liu, 1985 Caulibugula lunga Tilbrook, 2006 Caulibugula mortenseni (Marcus, 1925) Caulibugula occidentalis (Robertson, 1905) Caulibugula pearsei Maturo, 1966 Caulibugula separata Harmer, 1926 Caulibugula sinica Liu, 1985 Caulibugula tuberosa Hastings, 1939 Caulibugula zanzibarensis Waters, 1913