CalCOFI.io CalCOFI.io open data ecosystem
Phylum · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Bryozoa

bryozoans

WoRMS 146142ITIS 155469key worms:146142
i

2026-08-05: itis_id 155469 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Malio Kodis · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Ectoprocta

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Enlarge image for index to numbers. Cristatella mucedo (Cuvier) = Cristatella mucedo Cuvier 1798, immature statoblast Cristatella mucedo (Cuvier) = Cristatella mucedo Cuvier 1798, mature statoblast Cr
Photo · Ernst Haeckel · Public domain · commons

The Bryozoa are a phylum of simple, aquatic invertebrate animals, nearly all living in sedentary colonies. Typically about 0.5 millimetres long, they have a special feeding structure called a lophophore, a "crown" of tentacles used for filter feeding.W CalCOFI holds 5,164 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2005 and 2026.R

5,164
observations
5,548
records
1,483
sampling events
2005–2026
years
1
datasets

Observed in
i

One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

Ways in
i

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the ZooScan (Imaged Zooplankton) table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/cce-lter_zooscan.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:146142%22