Galapagos Species Database
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Cribellopora trichotoma
Briozoo, Bryozoan
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Bryozoa
Class
Gymnolaemata
Order
Cheilostomatida
Suborder
Flustrina
Superfamily
Schizoporelloidea
Family
Lacernidae
Genus
Cribellopora
Species
trichotoma
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Schizoporella trichotoma Waters, 1918 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: (S. trichotoma) Atlantic, Gulf of California and Galapagos Island in Isabela, Santa Cruz, Wenman, Charles, Chatham (Raymond Carroll Osburn, 1952). Cape Verde Island, Gulf of California and Galapagos Islands of in Floreana, San Cristobal, Santa Cruz, Isabela (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, Cribellopora trichotoma", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19335. Accessed 31 October 2026.