|
|
Family: Sertulariidae
Images not available |
Polyp: Colonies erect; hydrocaulus usually unbranched; each internode with a distal pair of frontally placed hydrothecae. Hydrothecal pairs opposite, horn-shaped, facing outwards to obliquely upwards; lacking intrathecal teeth or having one or two; margin with two lateral teeth and a smaller median adcauline tooth; operculum with a large abcauline valve and a smaller adcauline one. Reproduction: Gonophores as fixed sporosacs. Gonothecae arising from short pedicels on hydrocaulus at bases of hydrothecae; usually one or two per hydrocaulus; elongate-oval with about four faint, rounded ridges. Ecology and Distribution: Circumglobal species. Known in Bocas del Toro from near Bocatorito Bay and Punta Caracol. Similar taxa: Dynamena disticha. |