Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Exidmonea flexuosa
Bryozoo, Bryozoan
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Bryozoa
Class
Stenolaemata
Order
Cyclostomatida
Suborder
Tubuliporina
Family
Tubuliporidae
Genus
Exidmonea
Species
flexuosa
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Tubulipora flexuosa (Pourtalès, 1867) (Osburn, 1953) & (Banta & Redden, 1990); Idmidronea flexuosa (Pourtalès, 1867), Idmonea gracillima Busk, 1875, Idmonea tenella Ortmann, 1890, Idmonea watersi Kluge, 1946 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: (T. Flexuosa) Santiago Island in Galapagos (Osburn, 1953). California, Cocos Island Sea, Cuba, Porto Rico and the southern shore of the Caribbean, San Salvador and Galapagos Islands. (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.
- 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.
- Osburn, R.C. (1953) Bryozoa of the Pacific coast of America. Part III. Cyclostomata, Ctenostomata, Entoprocta and Addenada. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions 14(3): 613-841.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Exidmonea flexuosa", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19258. Accessed 31 October 2026.