Galapagos Species Database

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

Trypostega venusta (Norman, 1864)

briozoo, Bryozoan

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Bryozoa

Class
Gymnolaemata

Order
Cheilostomatida

Suborder
Flustrina

Superfamily
Hippothooidea

Family
Trypostegidae

Genus
Trypostega

Species
venusta

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Lepralia venusta Norman, 1864 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

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

Distribution: Southern California, West Mexico, Gulf of California, Cocos Island, Panama, Colombia and Galapagos Island (Raymond Carroll Osburn, 1952). Britain, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Indian Ocean, California, Cocos Island and Ecuador in Galapagos Islands of in Española, Floreana, Santa Cruz (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.
  • Canu, F. Bassler, R.S. (1930) The Bryozoan Fauna of the Galapagos Islands. Proc. US Natl. Mus. 76(13): 1-78.
  • 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, Trypostega venusta", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=9972. Accessed 31 October 2026.