Galapagos Species Database

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Arthropoma cecilii (Audouin, 1826)

briozoo, Bryozoan

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Bryozoa

Class
Gymnolaemata

Order
Cheilostomatida

Suborder
Neocheilostomatina

Superfamily
Schizoporelloidea

Family
Lacernidae

Genus
Arthropoma

Species
cecilii

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Anthropoma cecilii (Audouin, 1826), Flustra cecilii Audouin, 1826, Lepralia crystallina MacGillivray, 1869 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: British Columbia, California, Eastern Pacific and Galapagos Island San Cristobal (Raymond Carroll Osburn, 1952). Western Pacific, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Mediterranean, Britain to South Africa, Brazil, British Columbia and Galapagos Islands of Española (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. (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, Arthropoma cecilii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=15337. Accessed 14 May 2025.