Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Akatopora tincta
Briozoo, Bryozoan
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Bryozoa
Class
Gymnolaemata
Order
Cheilostomatida
Suborder
Neocheilostomatina
Superfamily
Calloporoidea
Family
Antroporidae
Genus
Akatopora
Species
tincta
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Antropora tincta (Hastings, 1930) (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: (A.tincta) California and Galapagos Islands (Osbourn, 1950) in Isabela, Santa Cruz (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, Akatopora tincta", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19262. Accessed 4 November 2026.