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Charles Darwin Foundation Galapagos Species Checklist


Bryozoans

Bryozoans are colonial organisms for which each individual has a crown of tentacles used to capture prey.
Approximately 184 species occur in Galapagos of which 34 could be endemic or native.

Authors: Angel Chiriboga, Diego Ruiz, Stuart Banks.

Other Contributors: Margarita Brandt, Rodrigo Bustamante, Graham Edgar, Peter Glynn, Cleveland Hickman, Fernando Pinillos, Fernando Rivera, Franz Smith, Mariana Vera, Luis Vinueza.

Names of taxa included: 149 total (142 accepted, 2 unidentified taxon, 5 problematic).

Origin of the taxa included: 15 endemic, 127 indigenous.

Bryozoa Species Checklist

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Domain Eukaryota

Kingdom Animalia

Division Bryozoa

Class Gymnolaemata

Order Cheilostomatida

Order Ctenostomatida

Class Stenolaemata

Order Cyclostomatida

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This list should be cited as follows:

Chiriboga, A., Ruiz, D., Banks, S. (2011). CDF Checklist of Galapagos Bryozoans - FCD Lista de especies de Bryozoos de Galápagos. In: Bungartz, F., Herrera, H., Jaramillo, P., Tirado, N., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Ruiz, D., Guézou, A. & Ziemmeck, F. (eds.). Charles Darwin Foundation Galapagos Species Checklist - Lista de Especies de Galápagos de la Fundación Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin Foundation / Fundación Charles Darwin, Puerto Ayora, Galapagos: http://www.darwinfoundation.org/datazone/checklists/marine-invertebrates/bryozoa/ Last updated 07 Jul 2011.