exterior skeletal wall

exterior skeletal wall
(BRYOZOA: Gymnolaemata)
In Cheilostomata, a skeletal wall which calcifies against the cuticle; the membrane forming this wall expands the coelomic volume of the colony.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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