Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Bryozoa > Class Gymnolaemata > Order Cheilostomatida > Suborder Flustrina > Superfamily Smittinoidea > Family Bitectiporidae

Pentapora Fischer, 1807

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Pentapora fascialis (Pallas, 1766)
Pentapora foliacea (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
Pentapora ottomuelleriana (Moll, 1803)

Literature

original description	Fischer von Waldheim, G. (1807). Museum Demidoff, ou, Catalogue systématique et raisonné des curiosités de la nature et de l'art: données à l'Université Impériale de Moscou par son excellence Monsieur Paul de Demidoff. Tome III. Végétaux et Animaux. Moscow: Imprimerie de Université Impériale de Moscou. 300 pp, 6 pls.
basis of record	Hayward, P.J. (2001). Bryozoa, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 325-333
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Lombardi, Chiara, Taylor, Paul D. & Cocito, Silvia, 2010. Systematics of the Miocene-Recent bryozoan genus Pentapora (Cheilostomata). Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society, 160, 17-39.

Genbank

Citation

Bock, P. (2025). World List of Bryozoa. Pentapora Fischer, 1807. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=110827