Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Aetea anguina
briozoo, Bryozoan
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: 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).
- 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.