Galapagos Species Database
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Abditoporella turrita
Briozoo, Bryozoan
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Bryozoa
Class
Gymnolaemata
Order
Cheilostomatida
Suborder
Flustrina
Superfamily
Celleporoidea
Family
Hippoporidridae
Genus
Abditoporella
Species
turrita
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Hippopodinella turrita Osburn, 1952, Odontoporella turrita (Osburn, 1952) (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: (H. turrita) Ecuador in Galapagos Islands of in Floreana, San Cristobal (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, Abditoporella turrita", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19328. Accessed 1 November 2026.