Pedobesia

Japanese: Pedobesia

…This was once called the sea egg Halicystis , but it is actually the sexual generation, and the zygotes of the male and female gametes produced here develop into staghorns. Recently, a life cycle was discovered in which the zoospores do not develop into sea eggs, but instead develop into disk-like structures that accumulate calcium carbonate, and a new genus, Pedobesia , was established. It was found that the staghorn and staghorn have this life cycle, and they were transferred to the new genus. …

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…これはかつてウミノタマHalicystisと呼ばれていたが，実は有性世代の体で，ここにつくられた雌雄の配偶子の接合子がツユノイトに生育する。最近，遊走子がウミノタマにならないで，炭酸カルシウムを蓄積する盤状に発達する生活史が見つかり，新属Pedobesiaが設立された。ヒメツユノイトとツユノイトはこの生活史をもつことがわかり，新属に移された。…

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