Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Phonicosia circinata
Briozoo, Bryozoan
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Bryozoa
Class
Gymnolaemata
Order
Cheilostomatida
Suborder
Flustrina
Superfamily
Schizoporelloidea
Family
Lacernidae
Genus
Phonicosia
Species
circinata
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Anthropoma circinatum, Lepralia circinata MacGillivray, 1869 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: ( A. circinatum) Australia, New Zealand, Tristan da Cunha, Southern California, Baja California, Pleistocene, California, Chile and Galapagos Island of 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Phonicosia circinata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19337. Accessed 31 October 2026.