Galapagos Species Database

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Arbocuspis bellula (Hincks, 1881)

Briozoo, Bryozoan

Taxonomy

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

Distribution: (E.bellula var. bicornis) Ecuador in Galápagos Islands (Osbourn, 1950) of Floreana (Banta & Redden, 1990).

References

  • 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.