Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Tegella horrida
Briozoo, Bryozoan
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Bryozoa
Class
Gymnolaemata
Order
Cheilostomatida
Suborder
Neocheilostomatina
Superfamily
Calloporoidea
Family
Calloporidae
Genus
Tegella
Species
horrida
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Callopora horrida (Hincks, 1880), Membranipora californiensis Waters, 1898, Membranipora horrida Hincks, 1880 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: (C. horrida) California, Puget Sound, British Columbia, Gulf of California and Galapagos Islands of Isabela (Tagus Cove, Albermale) (Osbourn, 1950), Daphne mayor (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, Tegella horrida", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19266. Accessed 1 November 2026.