Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Savignyella lafontii
briozoo, Bryozoan
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Bryozoa
Class
Gymnolaemata
Order
Cheilostomatida
Suborder
Flustrina
Superfamily
Catenicelloidea
Family
Savignyellidae
Genus
Savignyella
Species
lafontii
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Eucratea lafontii Audouin, 1826 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Cryptogenic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, Panama, Gorgona, Colombia and Galapagos Island (Raymond Carroll Osburn, 1952). America, Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, California, Colombia and Galapagos 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.
- Carlton, J. T. Keith, I., & Ruiz, G. M. (2019) Assessing marine bioinvasions in the Galápagos islands: Implications for conservation biology and marine protected areas. Aquatic Invasions, 14(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2019.14.1.01
- 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, Savignyella lafontii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=15403. Accessed 31 October 2026.