Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cyclicopora longipora
briozoo, Bryozoan
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Bryozoa
Class
Gymnolaemata
Order
Cheilostomatida
Suborder
Flustrina
Superfamily
Schizoporelloidea
Family
Cyclicoporidae
Genus
Cyclicopora
Species
longipora
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Lepralia longipora MacGillivray, 1882 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Gulf of California, South San Benito Island, West of lower California and Galapagos Island (Raymond Carroll Osburn, 1952). Gulf of California, Australia and Galapagos Islands of in Southwest of Santa cruz (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.
- 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, Cyclicopora longipora", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=15355. Accessed 30 October 2026.