Bryozoan Celleporaria
Celleporaria sibogae
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 of upright Celleporaria colonies have a characteristic nodular appearance and are generally thick but hollow as they originally grow around an organic substrate such as a sponge that later dies off after being overgrown.
Indo and Western Pacific distribution.
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 of upright Celleporaria colonies have a characteristic nodular appearance and are generally thick but hollow as they originally grow around an organic substrate such as a sponge that later dies off after being overgrown.
Indo and Western Pacific distribution.