FIGURE 9. Escharella similis n in Preliminary account on the bryozoans of the Alboran platform (Western Mediterranean), with description of two new species

FIGURE 9. Escharella similis n. sp. (Holotype: MNCN 25.03/4302). A. General view of a colony growing on a shell fragment. B. Detail of some fertile zooids showing the eight persistent oral spines, small suboral umbo and ovicells with independent aperture (arrow shows the kenozooidal ovicell). C. Detail of an ancestrula with 8 + 5 spines and subsequent zooids with 8 oral spines. D. Basal view of the aperture of a zooid showing the lyrula (lower level) and suboral umbo (higher level), condyles absent. Scale bars: A, 1 mm; B, 300 µm; C, 200 µm; D, 80 µm.