Digging into boring bryozoans: new characters and new species of Immergentiidae

MJ Johnson, AJ Saadi, P Kuklinski, AM Smith… - Organisms diversity & …, 2024 - Springer
Immergentia is an endolithic genus of ctenostome bryozoans and the sole member of the
Immergentiidae. Etchings of their typical spindled-shaped and sometimes enantiomorphic …

Boring life: early colony formation and growth in the endolithic bryozoan genus Penetrantia Silén, 1946

SH Decker, S Lemer, S Decker, M Hirose, MJ Johnson… - Zoological Letters, 2024 - Springer
As in most colonial and sessile marine invertebrates, bryozoan life history is characterized
by asexual propagation of zooids for colonial growth and by sexual production of larvae for …

First soft body morphological data on the tracemaker of the endolithic bryozoan trace fossil Terebripora ramosa d'Orbigny, 1842

SH Decker, F Aguilera, AJ Saadi… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Terebriporidae is one of the four extant endolithic ctenostome bryozoan families, with
colonies immersed into carbonate substrates like molluscan shells. This monogeneric family …