Galapagos Species Database

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

Biflustra savartii (Audouin, 1826)

briozoo, Bryozoan

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Bryozoa

Class
Gymnolaemata

Order
Cheilostomatida

Suborder
Membraniporina

Superfamily
Membraniporoidea

Family
Membraniporidae

Genus
Biflustra

Species
savartii

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Acanthodesia savartii (Audouin, 1826), Biflustra delicatula Busk, 1859, Ceriopora megalopora Reuss, 1848, Flustra savartii Audouin, 1826, Membranipora savartii (Audouin, 1826) (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: (M. savarti)California, Baja California, Costa Rica, Panama, Gulf of Mexico, Carabbean, Philippines, Australia and Galapagos Island of Santiago, Española,San Cristobal (Osbourn, 1950) Santa Cruz, (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.
  • Canu, F. Bassler, R.S. (1930) The Bryozoan Fauna of the Galapagos Islands. Proc. US Natl. Mus. 76(13): 1-78.
  • 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, Biflustra savartii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=15318. Accessed 4 November 2026.