Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Bellulopora bellula
briozoo, Bryozoan
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Bryozoa
Class
Gymnolaemata
Order
Cheilostomatida
Suborder
Belluloporina
Superfamily
Cribrilinoidea
Family
Belluloporidae
Genus
Bellulopora
Species
bellula
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Colletosia bellula Osburn, 1950 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Cape Hatteras to Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of California, Baja California, Pleis tocene of California, Chile and Galápagos Islands of in 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Bellulopora bellula", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=15338. Accessed 6 May 2025.