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Growth ofFlustra foliacea(Bryozoa)

✍ Scribed by A. R. D. Stebbing

Book ID
104735248
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Year
1971
Tongue
English
Weight
678 KB
Volume
9
Category
Article
ISSN
0025-3162

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✦ Synopsis

The perennial bryozoan Flustra /oliacea L. has annual growth-checks which leave lines across the fronds. These growth-checks have been used to determine the age and the pattern of growth of the colonies in terms of height and numbers of zooids. Monthly samples have been used to find the annual growth cycle. Heavy cncrustations of epizoites on the _F. ]oliacea colonies reduce growth rate. As the fronds increase in height, frontal budding of zooids thickens, and thereby strengthens, the holdfast.

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