Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Disporella novaehollandiae
Bryozoo, Bryozoan
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Bryozoa
Class
Stenolaemata
Order
Cyclostomatida
Suborder
Rectangulata
Family
Lichenoporidae
Genus
Disporella
Species
novaehollandiae
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Discoporella novae-zelandiae Busk, 1875; Unicavea novaehollandiae d'Orbigny, 1853 (Horton et al., 2021); Lichenopora novaezelandia (Busk, 1875) (Gordon & Taylor, 2001).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Australia, New Zealand (Horton et al., 2021). (L. novaezelandia) Galapagos I: Floreana (Osburn, 1953); New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, Japan, British Columbia, California, Ecuador in Galapagos Islands of Floreana (Banda & Reeden, 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.
- Gordon, D. P. Taylor, P. D. (2001) New Zealand Recent Densiporidae and Lichenoporidae (Bryozoa: Cyclostomata) Species Diversity, 6(3), 243–290
- 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.
- Osburn, R.C. (1953) Bryozoa of the Pacific coast of America. Part III. Cyclostomata, Ctenostomata, Entoprocta and Addenada. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions 14(3): 613-841.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Disporella novaehollandiae", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19410. Accessed 31 October 2026.