Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Antropora minor
Briozoo, Bryozoan
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Bryozoa
Class
Gymnolaemata
Order
Cheilostomatida
Suborder
Neocheilostomatina
Superfamily
Calloporoidea
Family
Antroporidae
Genus
Antropora
Species
minor
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Amphiblestrum papillatum Busk, 1884, Antropora claustracrassa (Canu & Bassler, 1930), Antropora marginella (Hincks, 1884), Membranipora trifolium var. minor Hincks, 1880 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: (A. claustracrassa) Guaymas and Galapagos Island (Osbourn, 1950) in Española, Floreana (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.
- Osbourn, R. C. (1950) Bryozoa of the Pacific Coast of America. Part 1, Cheilostomata-Anasca. Osbourn, R. C. (1950). Bryozoa of the Pacific Coast of America. Part 1, Cheilostomata-Anasca. In Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions. (1st ed., pp. 1–29).
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"Galapagos Species Database, Antropora minor", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19261. Accessed 31 October 2026.