Galapagos Species Database
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Aimulosia uvulifera
briozoo, Bryozoan
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Bryozoa
Class
Gymnolaemata
Order
Cheilostomatida
Suborder
Flustrina
Superfamily
Schizoporelloidea
Family
Buffonellidae
Genus
Aimulosia
Species
uvulifera
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Hippoporella uvulifera (Osburn, 1914) (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Florida, Caribbean, Baja California, Costa Rica, Cocos Island, Ecuador; Santa Elena, Galapagos Islands of in Seymour Sur (Banta & Redden, 1990; Raymond Carroll Osburn, 1952).
- 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. (1952) Bryozoa of the Pacific coast of America. part 2, Cheilostomata-Ascophora Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 14, 1–269
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"Galapagos Species Database, Aimulosia uvulifera", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=15336. Accessed 31 October 2026.