ectooecium
English
Noun
ectooecium (plural ectooecia)
- The outer, often calcified, layer of the wall of an ovicell of a bryozoan
- 2015 October 22, “Diversity and Systematics of Schizomavella Species (Bryozoa: Bitectiporidae) from the Bathyal NE Atlantic”, in PLOS ONE, DOI: :
- Ovicell hyperstomial (i.e. prominent), often becoming subimmersed by secondary calcification during ontogeny, completely calcified ectooecium with conspicuous frontal pseudopores, not closed by autozooidal operculum.
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