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Overview
Comprehensive Description
General Description
Puellina innominata is an encrusting bryozoan. Colonies form extensive, heavily calcified sheets, composed of a single layer of autozooids. Autozooids are broadly oval to irregularly polygonal, rather flat and separated by distinct grooves. They range in size from 0.29-0.51 by 0.18-0.30 mm. Five spines are present in non-reproductive zooids, and four in reproductive (with an ovicell) zooids.
The species is able to colonise shell and hard substrates. It has been recorded from the shallow subtidal zone to offshore waters (38-106 metres).
The long-standing taxonomic confusion surrounding this species was resolved by Bishop and Househam (1986). Puellina innominata has been recorded in error from almost every ocean, but its true distribution is almost certainly limited to the northeast Atlantic. In the British Isles, it is known from the English Channel, Sussex, Normandy, Brittany, Guernsey, Devon and Cornwall. It has also been recorded from Galway, off Antrim in the Irish Sea, off the west coast of Scotland and Shetland.
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Distribution
Distribution
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Hayward, P.J. (2001). Bryozoa, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 325-333
http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=1369
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De Blauwe, H. (2009). Mosdiertjes van de Zuidelijke Bocht van de Noordzee. Determinatiewerk voor België en Nederland. Uitgave Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee, Oostende: 464pp.
http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=130048
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Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
http://www.marinespecies.org/porifera/porifera.php?p=sourcedetails&id=145245
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MEDIN (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN, version 1.0.
http://www.marinespecies.org/asteroidea/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=149081
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Ramos, M. (ed.). 2010. IBERFAUNA. The Iberian Fauna Databank
http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=149024
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Ecology
Habitat
Water temperature and chemistry ranges based on 2 samples.
Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 67 - 87
Temperature range (°C): 23.246 - 23.574
Nitrate (umol/L): 0.218 - 0.307
Salinity (PPS): 35.484 - 35.568
Oxygen (ml/l): 4.749 - 4.801
Phosphate (umol/l): 0.157 - 0.176
Silicate (umol/l): 1.036 - 1.313
Graphical representation
Depth range (m): 67 - 87
Temperature range (°C): 23.246 - 23.574
Nitrate (umol/L): 0.218 - 0.307
Salinity (PPS): 35.484 - 35.568
Oxygen (ml/l): 4.749 - 4.801
Phosphate (umol/l): 0.157 - 0.176
Silicate (umol/l): 1.036 - 1.313
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