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WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Porella obesa Waters, 1900) Waters, A. W. (1900). Bryozoa from Franz-Josef Land, collected by the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition, 1896-1897. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society (zoology) London.</em> 28: 43-105. [details]
basis of record
Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
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]
Unreviewed
Diet small microorganisms, including diatoms and other unicellualr algae [details]
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region); lower North Shore [details]
Habitat circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary; 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]
Taxonomy 156343 is ITIS TSN number for Hippodiplosia obesa [details]
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