ectooecium

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Noun

ectooecium (plural ectooecia)

1. The outer, often calcified, layer of the wall of an ovicell of a bryozoan.
   • 2015 October 22, “Diversity and Systematics of Schizomavella Species (Bryozoa: Bitectiporidae) from the Bathyal NE Atlantic”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Ovicell hyperstomial (i.e. prominent), often becoming subimmersed by secondary calcification during ontogeny, completely calcified ectooecium with conspicuous frontal pseudopores, not closed by autozooidal operculum.