costal shield

costal shield
(BRYOZOA: Gymnolaemata)
The discontinuous frontal shield or part of the frontal shield of cheilostomate zooids, produced by intermittently fused or unfused spines overspreading the uncalcified part of the frontal wall.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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