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A Cyphonautes Larva (Bryozoa: Gymnolaemata) from the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Rachael S. Shreeve  and
Peter J. Hayward
Rachael S. Shreeve
Affiliation:
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 OEU.
Peter J. Hayward
Affiliation:
Marine Environmental and Evolutionary Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP
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Bryozoans are an important component of the sessile, suspension-feeding fauna on the Antarctic continental shelf, (Knox & Cameron, 1970; Dell, 1972; Winston, 1983; Winston & Heimberg, 1988). Antarctic bryozoan faunas are systematically diverse, and display a broad range of colony morphotypes; they include fast-growing, short-lived species and long-lived perennials (Winston & Heimberg, 1988). Very little is presently known about the reproductive biology of Antarctic bryozoans, although it seems that a preponderance of species brood lecithotrophic larvae with a short, free-swimming phase. Planktotrophic larvae with a free-swimming phase of several weeks occur in a variety of gymnolaemate families, principally distributed in temperate coastal waters, and most often associated with specialized microhabitats or substrates. This type of larva, referred to as a cyphonautes (Zimmer & Woollacott, 1977), has not previously been reported from polar seas, and its occurrence in the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica, is thus of considerable interest.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 75 , Issue 2 , May 1995 , pp. 499 - 501
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1995

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