Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Acanthodesia tuberculata (Bosc, 1802), Amphiblestrum bituberculatum Ortmann, 1890, Flustra peregrina d'Orbigny, 1839, Flustra tehuelca d'Orbigny, 1839, Flustra tehuelcha d'Orbigny, 1842, Flustra tuberculata Bosc, 1802, Membranipora tehuelca, Membranipora tuberculata (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: (M. tuberculata) British Columbia, Peru, Massachusetts to Patagonia, Europe to Angola, Japan to Australia, New Zelanda and Galapagos Islands to 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.
• 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.