Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Crisularia mollis
Briozoo, Bryozoan
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Bryozoa
Class
Gymnolaemata
Order
Cheilostomatida
Suborder
Neocheilostomatina
Superfamily
Buguloidea
Family
Bugulidae
Genus
Crisularia
Species
mollis
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Bugula mollis Harmer, 1926 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: ( B. mollis Harmer) New Guinea, Java Sea, California to Panama and Galapagos Island of Santiago, Isabela (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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Crisularia mollis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19265. Accessed 31 October 2026.