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Flustrellidra hispida

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Flustrellidra hispida
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Bryozoa
Class: Gymnolaemata
Order: Ctenostomatida
Family: Flustrellidridae
Genus: Flustrellidra
Species:
F. hispida
Binomial name
Flustrellidra hispida
(Fabricius, 1780)[1]

Flustrellidra hispida is a species of colonial bryozoan in the order Ctenostomatida.

Encrusting colonies are loosely attached to substrata, forming thick, lobed, brown to yellowish patches with a "furry" appearance due to dense spines. Colonies comprise sterile and protandrous hermaphrodite zooids incubating non-feeding pseudocyphonautes larva in the modified tentacle sheath.

Flustrellidra hispida is an amphiboreal species, widely distributed in the northern Atlantic. They live in a temperate climate and prefer a water temperature not exceeding 15 °C and normal salinity.

References

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  1. ^ Gordon, D. (2014). "Flustrellidra hispida (Fabricius, 1780)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2014-12-11.