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Genus SAVIGNYELLA Levinsen, 1909 



"The aperture surrounded by spines, with a concave poster and with 

 no sinus; an avicularium proximally to the aperture; distal wall with 

 uniporous rosette-plates; ooecia present" (Levinsen, 1909:274). Geno- 

 type, Eucratea lafontii Audouin, 1826. 



Zoarium uniserial, jointed, each internode of a single zooecium. 



Savignyella lafonti (Audouin), 1826 

 Plate 31, fig. 3 



Eucratea lafontii Audouin, 1826:242. 

 Catenaria lafontii, Hastings, 1930:732. 

 Savignyella lafonti, Osburn, 1940:466. 



Zoarium brick-red in color, erect or spreading, uniserial, with chitinous 

 joints, each internode consisting of a single zooecium ; budding from the 

 distal end of the dorsal side. The zooecia are elongate, trumpet-shaped, 

 the proximal end a narrow tube; varying greatly in length from 0.75 

 to 1.50 mm, the difference chiefly due to the stalk-like basal portion. 

 The aperture is more or less semicircular, without a sinus ; the peristome 

 raised, provided with about 6 strong spines and with a suboral avicu- 

 larium with a triangular mandible. The zooecial body is perforated by 

 rather large pores, but these do not appear on the narrowed stalk. 



The ovicells are globular, conspicuous and perforated like the frontal. 



Distributed around the world in warmer waters: common in the 

 Gulf of Mexico and from Bermuda to Brazil. On the Pacific coast 

 recorded only by Hastings, Coiba and Taboga Islands, Panama, and 

 Gorgona, Colombia. 



Hancock Stations: dredged at only two stations, 66-33, Tagus Cove, 

 Albermarle Island, Galapagos, and 411-35, Gorgona, Colombia. Taken 

 occasionally along the coast of southern California, San Pedro Harbor, 

 Newport Harbor and La Jolla (R. C. Osburn, coll.). 



Genus EUTELEIA Marcus, 1938 



The zoarium climbs over the stems of other bryozoans, hydroids, etc., 

 with occasional short, free branches; uniserial, the zooecia single and 

 with chitinous joints at the base; aperture terminal or nearly so; the 

 front perforated. No avicularia, no ooecia. Genotype, Euteleia evelinae 

 Marcus, 1938:33. 



