Galapagos Species Database

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Aetea truncata (Landsborough, 1852)

briozoo, Bryozoan

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Bryozoa

Class
Gymnolaemata

Order
Cheilostomatida

Suborder
Inovicellina

Superfamily
Aeteoidea

Family
Aeteidae

Genus
Aetea

Species
truncata

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Aetopsis elongata Boeck, 1862, Anguinaria truncata Landsborough, 1852 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: Europe, Indian Ocean, Japan to Australia, Nova Scotia to Brazil, British Columbia, Peru, Chile and Galapagos Islands (Osbourn, 1950) of 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.
  • 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.
  • Osbourn, R. C. (1950) Bryozoa of the Pacific Coast of America. Part 1, Cheilostomata-Anasca. Osbourn, R. C. (1950). Bryozoa of the Pacific Coast of America. Part 1, Cheilostomata-Anasca. In Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions. (1st ed., pp. 1–29).

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"Galapagos Species Database, Aetea truncata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=15290. Accessed 26 June 2025.