"Genus Beania
(Det nomen Dom. Gulielmus Bean, zoophytorum investigator peritissimus.)
Char. Polyparium phytoïdeum, filiforme, repens,corneum; surculis tubulosis, diffuse ramosis, vesiculiferis. Vesiculаe singulatim sparsаe, erectae, magnae, ovatx, uno latere spinosze. Polypi ignoti.
Polypidom confervoid, horny, the shoots creeping, filiform, tubular, irregularly divided; the cells very large, sessile, erect, scattered and solitary, ovate with a double spinous keel on one side. Polypes unknown." (Johnston, 1840:272)
Beania is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Beaniidae.[1]
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.[1]
Species:[1]
Beania is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Beaniidae.
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.
