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Beania maxilladentata Ramalho, Muricy & Taylor 2010
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Description
Beania maxilladentata Ramalho, Muricy & Taylor, 2010
(Fig 9–11, 21; Table 1)
Beania maxilladentata Ramalho et al., 2010: 504, fig. 4.
Material examined. MZUSP 400.
Remarks. Beania maxilladentata was recently described from Rio de Janeiro state on bryozoans, shells, serpulids and algae in 3–6 m of water. The species is characterized by small spines that never overarch the frontal membrane and by the presence of a strongly curved avicularian mandible with one or two tooth-shaped accessory structures.
Distribution. Atlantic. Brazil: Rio de Janeiro (Ramalho et al. 2010; present study).
Notes
Published as part of Vieira, Leandro M., Migotto, Alvaro E. & Winston, Judith E., 2010, Shallow-water species of Beania Johnston, 1840 (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) from the tropical and subtropical Western Atlantic, pp. 1-20 in Zootaxa 2550 on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.196806
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Ramalho, Muricy & Taylor
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Bryozoa
- Order
- Cheilostomatida
- Family
- Beaniidae
- Genus
- Beania
- Species
- maxilladentata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Beania maxilladentata Ramalho, 2010 sec. Vieira, Migotto & Winston, 2010
References
- Ramalho, L. V., Muricy, G. & Taylor, P. D. (2010) Taxonomy of Beania Johnston, 1840 (Bryozoa, Flustrina) from Arraial do Cabo, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, 66, 499 - 508.