Galapagos Species Database

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

Watersipora cucullata (Busk, 1854)

briozoo, Bryozoan

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Bryozoa

Class
Gymnolaemata

Order
Cheilostomatida

Suborder
Flustrina

Superfamily
Smittinoidea

Family
Watersiporidae

Genus
Watersipora

Species
cucullata

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Lepralia cucullata Busk, 1854, Watersipora subovoidea (d'Orbigny, 1852) (Horton et al., 2021)

Origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: Atlantic, Mediterranean, Red Sea, Indian Ocean and Galapagos Islands of in Santiago, 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, Watersipora cucullata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=15416. Accessed 4 November 2026.