Galapagos Species Database
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Arbocuspis bellula
Briozoo, Bryozoan
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Bryozoa
Class
Gymnolaemata
Order
Cheilostomatida
Suborder
Membraniporina
Superfamily
Membraniporoidea
Family
Electridae
Genus
Arbocuspis
Species
bellula
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Electra bellula (Hincks, 1881) (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: (E.bellula var. bicornis) Ecuador in Galápagos Islands (Osbourn, 1950) of 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.
- WoRMS Editorial Board (2013) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) Available from http://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ
- 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.
- Vieira, L. M. Almeida, A. C. S., & Winston, J. E. (2016) Taxonomy of intertidal cheilostome bryozoa of Maceió, Northeastern Brazil. Part 1: Suborders Inovicellina, Malacostegina and Thalamoporellina. Zootaxa, 4097(1), 59–83. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4097.1.3
- 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, Arbocuspis bellula", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19267. Accessed 6 May 2025.