Flustrellidra hispida

Flustrellidra hispida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Bryozoa
Class:	Gymnolaemata
Order:	Ctenostomatida
Family:	Flustrellidridae
Genus:	Flustrellidra
Species:	Flustrellidra hispida
Binomial name
	Flustrellidra hispida; (Fabricius, 1780)[1]

Flustrellidra hispida (Fabricius, 1780) is a species of colonial bryozoan in the order Ctenostomatida.

Encrusting colonies are loosely attached to substrata, forming thick, lobed, brown to yellowish patches with a “furry” appearance due to dense spines. Colonies comprise sterile and protandrous hermaphrodite zooids incubating non-feeding pseudocyphonautes larva in the modified tentacle sheath.

Flustrellidra hispida is an amphiboreal species, widely distributed in the northern Atlantic. They live in a temperate climate and prefer a water temperature not exceeding 15 ° C and normal salinity.

References

Gordon, D. (2014). "Flustrellidra hispida (Fabricius, 1780)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2014-12-11.

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[WoRMS-1] Gordon, D. (2014). "Flustrellidra hispida (Fabricius, 1780)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2014-12-11.