Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cigclisula turrita
briozoo, Bryozoan
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Bryozoa
Class
Gymnolaemata
Order
Cheilostomatida
Suborder
Flustrina
Superfamily
Celleporoidea
Family
Colatooeciidae
Genus
Cigclisula
Species
turrita
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Holoporella turrita (Smitt, 1873), Lepralia turrita Smitt, 1873, Trematooecia turrita (Smitt, 1873) (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Indian Ocean, China, Philippines, Florida, Pleistocene of Panama and Galapagos of 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, Cigclisula turrita", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=15345. Accessed 4 November 2026.