Galapagos Species Database
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Robertsonidra oligopus
briozoo, Bryozoan
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Bryozoa
Class
Gymnolaemata
Order
Cheilostomatida
Suborder
Flustrina
Superfamily
Schizoporelloidea
Family
Robertsonidridae
Genus
Robertsonidra
Species
oligopus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Schizoporella oligopus Robertson, 1908 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Southern California, Tanner Bank, United States, Mexican, Gulf of California and Galapagos Island (Raymond Carroll Osburn, 1952). California, Baja California and Galapagos of Pinta (Banta & Redden, 1990).
- 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.
- Banta, W.C. (1991) The Bryozoa of the Galápagos. In: James, M.J. (ed.): Galápagos Marine Invertebrates. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press, New York and London, p. 371-367.
- 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, Robertsonidra oligopus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=15401. Accessed 31 October 2026.