Campanulina pumila (Clarke, 1875)

Picture: Fig. 1

Picture: Fig. 2

DESCRIPTION

Stolonal, minute colony. Hydrotheca on spiral pedicel, cylindrical to tapering, broadest at aperture. Operculum present with about 10 triangular flaps, without a demarcating crease-line. Elongate egg-shaped gonotheca grows directly from stolons, on short pedicel. Gonophores are sessile sporosacs. Females with two eggs.

DISTRIBUTION IN SVALBARD

Hornsund. First record in Svalbard waters.

WORLD DISTRIBUTION

Greenland, Great Britain, Netherlands, New England

DEPTH

5-16 m

SUBSTRATE

Algae, Bryozoa, rock

REPRODUCTION

Fixed gonophores. Present.