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[email protected] Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos "Alexander von Humboldt" Colombia Montoya-Cadavid, Erika; Flórez-Romero, Paola; Winston, Judith E. Checklist of the marine Bryozoa of the Colombian Caribbean Biota Colombiana, vol. 8, núm. 2, 2007, pp. 159-184 Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos "Alexander von Humboldt" Bogotá, Colombia Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=49180202 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Biota Colombiana 8 (2) 159 - 184, 2007 Checklist of the marine Bryozoa of the Colombian Caribbean Erika Montoya-Cadavid¹, Paola Flórez-Romero² y Judith E. Winston³ 1 Museo de Historia Natural Marino de Colombia (MHNMC), Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras, INVE- MAR. Cerro Punta Betin – Santa Marta, Colombia.
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[email protected] Key words: Bryozoa, Colombian Caribbean, List of species, Gymnolaemata, Cyclostomata. Introduction development and generate lecithotrophic non-feeding larvae, or in a few species bivalved cyphonautes larvae that The phylum Bryozoa is a significant aquatic feed in the plankton. After settling on the substratum, the invertebrate group owing to its diversity, abundance, wide larva metamorphoses into an ancestrula, the first zooid of distribution, and economic importance to humans.