Celleporaria sibogae bryozoan

Bryozoan found in reefs. Colonies are encrusting. Associated with the hydroid Zanclea divergens, which lives below its skeleton. Suspension feeder. Members of the phylum Bryozoa are hermaphroditic. Both fertilization and egg brooding may either be internal or external.

Lepraliellids of the genus Celleporaria include some of the largest of all bryozoan colonies, with individual heads up to a foot in height and nearly a metre in diameter, that may form predominantly bryozoan reefs. Branches.. more