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| Results of the Puritan-American Museum of Natural History Expedition to Western Mexico. 18, Cyclostomata, Ctenostomata (Ectoprocta), and Entoprocta of the Gulf of California. American Museum novitates ; no. 2144 |
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| Title: | Results of the Puritan-American Museum of Natural History Expedition to Western Mexico. 18, Cyclostomata, Ctenostomata (Ectoprocta), and Entoprocta of the Gulf of California. American Museum novitates ; no. 2144 |
| Other Titles: | Cyclostomata, Ctenostomata (Ectoprocta), and Entoprocta of the Gulf of California Puritan Expedition. |
| Authors: | Soule, John D. Puritan-American Museum of Natural History Expedition to Western Mexico (1957) |
| Issue Date: | 1963 |
| Publisher: | New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History |
| Series/Report no.: | American Museum novitates ; no. 2144 |
| Abstract: | "Tabulation (see table 1) of the bryozoans, Ectoprocta, and Entoprocta in the present collections reveals the numerical superiority of the suborder Cheilostomata, with 131 species. The Anasca Cheilostomata have 56 (Soule, 1959); the Ascophora Cheilostomata, 75 (Soule, 1961). The present report describes 15 species of the suborder Cyclostomata, 13 species of the suborder Ctenostomata, and one representative of the phylum Entoprocta. Thus the total number of species of bryozoans in the Puritan collection is 160. Further analysis of this Puritan collection reveals that there are 59 species reported from the Gulf of California for the first time. In addition, the Puritan collection adds 13 species to the Panamic faunal list, contains four species previously unknown to the waters of the eastern Pacific, and, lastly, adds nine new species, all in the suborder Cheilostomata, to the phylum. With the exception of the new species, all the bryozoans in the Puritan collection have been reported fr... |
| Description: | 34 p. : map ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 30-34). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2246/3392 |
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