Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Pourtalesella cornuta
Briozoo, Bryozoan
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
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).
- 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.