Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Trematooecia hexagonalis
Briozoo, Bryozoan
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Bryozoa
Class
Gymnolaemata
Order
Cheilostomatida
Suborder
Flustrina
Superfamily
Celleporoidea
Family
Colatooeciidae
Genus
Trematooecia
Species
hexagonalis
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Cigclisula hexagonalis (Canu & Bassler, 1930)
Origin: Native
Distribution: (C. hexagonalis) Gulf of California, Mexico and Galapagos Islands of in Española, San Cristobal, Isabela, Floreana, Santa Fe (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, Trematooecia hexagonalis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19314. Accessed 1 November 2026.