Galapagos Species Database

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

Bellulopora bellula (Osburn, 1950)

briozoo, Bryozoan

Taxonomy

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

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).

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.
  • 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.