Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Pourtalesella cornuta (Gabb & Horn, 1862)

Briozoo, Bryozoan

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Bryozoa

Class
Gymnolaemata

Order
Cheilostomatida

Suborder
Flustrina

Superfamily
Celleporoidea

Family
Celleporidae

Genus
Pourtalesella

Species
cornuta

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Reptescharellina cornuta Gabb & Horn, 1862, Schizoporella cornuta (Gabb & Horn, 1862), Torquatella cornuta (Gabb & Horn, 1862) (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: (S. cornuta) British Columbia, Southern California, Alaska and Galapagos Island (Raymond Carroll Osburn, 1952). Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, Massachesetts, Florida and Galapagos Islands of in Española, Santiago, Isabela, Santa Cruz (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.
  • 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. (1952) Bryozoa of the Pacific coast of America. part 2, Cheilostomata-Ascophora Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 14, 1–269

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"Galapagos Species Database, Pourtalesella cornuta", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19334. Accessed 31 October 2026.