![[Margaretta barbata]](margbar.gif)
![[Margaretta cereoides]](margcer1.png)
![[Margaretta triplex]](margtric.gif)
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| Tubucellariidae | Busk, 1884 | |
| Onchoporidae | Busk, 1884 |
Diagnosis: Colony erect, nodal, well calcified, arising from an erect ancestrula and anchored by numerous rhizoids. Internodes often long and curved, formed by whorls of zooids with porous, lepralioid frontal shields, and terminal orifice with tubular peristome. Ascopore present. Avicularia absent. Brooding in peristomial ovicells with elongated peristomes. (after Harmer, 1957).
Includes the single genus Margaretta.
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| Margaretta barbata | Margaretta cereoides | Margaretta triplex |
Margaretta page at NMITA
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