Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Celleporaria brunnea (Hincks, 1884)

briozoo, Bryozoan

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Bryozoa

Class
Gymnolaemata

Order
Cheilostomatida

Suborder
Flustrina

Superfamily
Celleporoidea

Family
Celleporidae

Genus
Celleporaria

Species
brunnea

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Cellepora brunnea Hincks, 1884 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: British Columbia, Cocos Island, Ecuador and Galapagos Islands of in Santiago, Santa Cruz, Isabela (Banta & Redden, 1990).

References

  • Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
  • 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, Celleporaria brunnea", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=9400. Accessed 31 October 2026.