Plumatella fungosa

Plumatella fungosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Bryozoa
Class:	Phylactolaemata
Order:	Plumatellida
Family:	Plumatellidae
Genus:	Plumatella
Species:	P. fungosa
Binomial name
	Plumatella fungosa; (Pallas, 1768)
Synonyms
	Tubularia fungosa (Pallas, 1768); Alcyonella fluviatile (Bruguière, 1789); Alcyonella fungosa (Van Beneden, 1848); Alcyonella flabellum (Van Beneden, 1848); Alcyonella fungosa (Allman, 1856); Plumatella polymorpha var. fungosa (Kraepelin, 1887); Plumatella repens var. fungosa (Vangel, 1894); Plumatella repens var. fungosa (Annandale, 1910); Plumatella fungosa (Abrikosov, 1925);

Plumatella fungosa (vernacular name: fungoid bryozoan[1]) is a species of bryozoans from the family Plumatellidae.

It is generally found in the USA and Europe throughout streams in the North and mountain streams in the South. Plumatella fungosa is the dominant bryozoan in small mountain lakes at around 4000m altitude. It is commonly found in waters rich in humic colouration and with pH below 7, conditions which are often seen in waters surrounded by conifers.[2]

References

Common name
Hart & Fuller (1974). Pollution Ecology of Freshwater Invertebrates. Water Pollution - a series of monographs. Academic Press. p. 167. ISBN 0-12-328450-3.

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[1] Common name

[2] Hart & Fuller (1974). Pollution Ecology of Freshwater Invertebrates. Water Pollution - a series of monographs. Academic Press. p. 167. ISBN 0-12-328450-3.