Plumatella fungosa

{{Short description|Species of freshwater moss animal}}

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| image = Plumatella fungosa (10.3897-zookeys.774.21769) Figure 4.jpg

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| genus = Plumatella

| species = fungosa

| authority = (Pallas, 1768)

| synonyms =

• Tubularia fungosa (Pallas, 1768)
• Alcyonella fluviatile (Bruguière, 1789)
• Alcyonella fungosa (Van Beneden, 1848)
• Alcyonella flabellum (Van Beneden, 1848)
• Alcyonella fungosa (Allman, 1856)
• Plumatella polymorpha var. fungosa (Kraepelin, 1887)
• Plumatella repens var. fungosa (Vangel, 1894)
• Plumatella repens var. fungosa (Annandale, 1910)
• Plumatella fungosa (Abrikosov, 1925)

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Plumatella fungosa, commonly known as the fungoid bryozoan or knoll bryozoan,{{cite book |last1=Cole |first1=Theodor C. H. |title=Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates: Latein-Deutsch-Englisch |date=2017 |publisher=Springer Spektrum |location=Berlin, Heidelberg |isbn=978-3-662-52869-3 |page=37 |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-52869-3}} is a freshwater species of bryozoan in the family Plumatellidae.

It is generally found in the USA and Europe throughout streams in the North and mountain streams in the South. Plumatella fungosa is the dominant bryozoan in small mountain lakes at around 4000m altitude. It is commonly found in waters rich in humic colouration and with pH below 7, conditions which are often seen in waters surrounded by conifers.{{cite book|last=Hart & Fuller |title=Pollution Ecology of Freshwater Invertebrates|publisher=Academic Press|series=Water Pollution - a series of monographs|year=1974|pages=167|isbn=0-12-328450-3}}