Galapagos Species Database

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Disporella novaehollandiae (d'Orbigny, 1853)

Bryozoo, Bryozoan

Taxonomy

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

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).

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.
  • 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.