FIGURE 8 in Phylactolaemate bryozoans at the Zoological Survey of India and a taxonomic key to Indian Phylactolaemata

FIGURE 8. Plumatella testudinicola, now recognized as two species: P. casmiana and P. bombayensis. (a) A portion of turtle plaston from ZEV 5065 showing parallel lines of zooids, scale bar = 1 cm; (b) Sessoblasts from ZEV 5065 from a SEM micrograph by Wiebach 1975, modified by the addition of a 400 µm scale bar; (c) Sessoblast from ZEV 5023 showing interstitial reticulation characteristic of P. bombayensis, scale bar = 100 µm; (d) enlarged portion of Figure 8c showing the strong reticulation, with tubercles present but less apparent than in Figure 4d.