Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Licornia ferox
Briozoo, Bryozoan
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Bryozoa
Class
Gymnolaemata
Order
Cheilostomatida
Suborder
Flustrina
Superfamily
Buguloidea
Family
Candidae
Genus
Licornia
Species
ferox
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Scrupocellaria ferox Busk, 1852 (Horton et al., 2021)
Origin: Native
Distribution: ( S. ferox) Widely distributed in the Indian and Pacific oceans, Zanzibar , in Galapagos Islands of in San Cristobal, Santa Cruz( Sur), Isabela (Banta & Redden, 1990).
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- 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, Licornia ferox", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19274. Accessed 1 November 2026.