Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Aetea anguina (Linnaeus, 1758)

briozoo, Bryozoan

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Bryozoa

Class
Gymnolaemata

Order
Cheilostomatida

Suborder
Inovicellina

Superfamily
Aeteoidea

Family
Aeteidae

Genus
Aetea

Species
anguina

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Aetea anguinea (Linnaeus, 1758), Anguinaria spatulata Lamarck, 1816, Sertularia anguina Linnaeus, 1758 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: Arctic, Great Britain, Marine to Brazil, Mediterranen, Indian Ocean, Malay, Australia, Japan, Chile, Patagonia, Juan Fernandez, California, British Columbia, Antarctic, and Galapagos Islands of Santiago, Santa Cruz, Isabela (Banta & Redden, 1990).

References

  • Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
  • Banta, W.C. Redden, J.C. (1990) A Checklist of the Bryozoa of the Galapagos. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 103(4), 789–802.
  • Banta, W.C. (1991) The Bryozoa of the Galápagos. In: James, M.J. (ed.): Galápagos Marine Invertebrates. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press, New York and London, p. 371-367.
  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Aetea anguina", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=15227. Accessed 4 June 2026.