Galapagos Species Database

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

Crisia maxima Robertson, 1910

briozoo, Bryozoan

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Bryozoa

Class
Stenolaemata

Order
Cyclostomatida

Suborder
Articulina

Family
Crisiidae

Genus
Crisia

Species
maxima

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: Galapgos I: Española, San Cristobal, San Fe (Osburn, 1953). British Columbia to the Gulf of California an the Galapagos Islands of Española, San Cristobal, Santa Fe (Banta & Redden, 1990). California, United State (Horton et al., 2021).

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.
  • 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.
  • Osburn, R.C. (1953) Bryozoa of the Pacific coast of America. Part III. Cyclostomata, Ctenostomata, Entoprocta and Addenada. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions 14(3): 613-841.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Crisia maxima", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=15259. Accessed 1 November 2026.