Aetea Lamouroux, 1812

Type species: Sertularia anguina Linnaeus, 1758

Synonyms Author Type Species
Aetopsis Boeck, 1862 Aetopsis elongata Boeck, 1862 =Anguinaria truncata Landsborough, 1852
Anguinaria Lamouroux, 1812 Anguinaria spatulata = Sertularia anguina Lamouroux, 1812

Description: Colony composed of uniserial chains of zooids, branching and spreading irregularly. Each zooid is made up two parts, with a lower part, usually encrusting a substrate, from which rises a erect tubular part containing the frontal membrane and operculum. The adnate part may be thin and threadlike, or expanding to a dilated zooid from small connecting tubes. The erect part of the zooid includes a cylindrical proximal zone, and a distal zone with the frontal membrane on one side, often on an expanded part of the zooid. Calcification is delicate. There are no avicularia. Embryos are brooded in external thin-walled ovisacs, which are rarely seen. (partly from Hayward & Ryland, 1998)

A few records of this genus as a fossil are based upon preserved encrusting material, which is often of doubtful affinities. The Recent material is so thinly calcified that it is difficult to imagine that specimens could be preserved as fossils, except under exceptional conditions.

Most records of Aetea are from shallow-water or midshelf, but it can occur at greater depths.

This genus includes the species:

  1. Aetea americana
    		2.  d'Orbigny, 1851 Recent Cuba WoRMS 469049
  2. Aetea anguina
    		3. (Linnaeus, 1758) Recent Cosmopolitan WoRMS 111062
  3. Aetea arcuata
    		4.  Winston & Hayward, 2012 Recent Northwest Atlantic USA WoRMS 607825
  4. Aetea australis
    		5. Jullien, 1888 Recent S.America, W.Australia WoRMS 469042
  5. Aetea boninensis
    		6. Silén, 1941 Recent West Pacific WoRMS 466515
  6. Aetea crosslandi
    		7.  Waters, 1910 Recent Red Sea WoRMS 210794
  7. Aetea cultrata
    		8.  Vieira, Almeida & Winston, 2016 Recent West Atlantic Brazil WoRMS 872600
  8. Aetea curta
    		9. Jullien, 1888 Recent South America, Australia WoRMS 469047
  9. Aetea dilatata
    		10. (Busk, 1851) Recent Australia WoRMS 469043
  10. Aetea lepadiformis
    		11.  Waters, 1906 Recent Mediterranean WoRMS 111063
  11. Aetea ligulata
    		12. Busk, 1852 Recent widespread WoRMS 111064
  12. Aetea lineata
    		13.  Jullien, 1882 Recent WoRMS 469048
  13. Aetea longicollis
    		14. (Jullien, 1903) Recent NE Atlantic, Mediterranean WoRMS 111065
  14. Aetea paraligulata
    		15. Soule, Soule & Chaney, 1995 Recent California WoRMS 469045
  15. Aetea pseudoanguina
    		16. Soule, Soule & Chaney, 1995 Recent California WoRMS 469044
  16. Aetea sica
    		17. (Couch, 1844) Recent Widespread WoRMS 111066
  17. Aetea truncata
    		18. (Landsborough, 1852) Recent
    Miocene, Eocene    		 Cosmopolitan
    Egypt, USA    		 WoRMS 111067
[Aetea anguina] [Aetea australis] [Aetea sica]
Aetea anguina Aetea australis Aetea sica
Aetea sica - at the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce, Florida.
Aetea truncata - at the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce, Florida.

Aetea truncata - from Bryozoan collection from the Safaga Bay (North Red Sea).

Aetea anguina at APhotoMarine.

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Edited by Phil Bock
Modified on 25/08/2016
Modified on 24/5/2017 (A capillaris revised to Callaetea)
Modified on 24/5/2017 (Added generic synonyms)
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