Species of moss animal
Plumatella fungosa
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Bryozoa
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Class:
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Phylactolaemata
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Order:
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Plumatellida
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Family:
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Plumatellidae
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Genus:
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Plumatella
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Species:
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P. fungosa
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Binomial name
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Plumatella fungosa
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Synonyms
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- 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)
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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]
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