Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Bryozoa > Class Gymnolaemata > Order Ctenostomatida > Suborder Victorellina > Superfamily Victorelloidea > Family Victorellidae > Genus Victorella

Victorella pavida Saville-Kent, 1870

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Victorella*	Saville-Kent, 1870	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: trembling sea-mat; trembling semat sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;MarLIN. (2006). BIOTIC - Biological Traits Information Catalogue. Marine Life Information Network. Plymouth: Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.

German: Zitternde Seerinde

Literature

original description	Kent, W. S. (1870). On a new Polyzoon, Victoriella pavida, from the Victoria Docks. Quarterly journal of microscopical science. 10: 35-39, pl.4.
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	Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Winston, J. E.; Hayward, P. J. (2012). The Marine Bryozoans of the Northeast Coast of the United States: Maine to Virginia. Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoir, 11: i-xii, 1-180
additional source	Hayward, P.J. (1985). Ctenostome bryozoans: keys and notes for the identification of the species. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 33. E.J. Brill; W. Backhuys: London, UK. ISBN 90-04-07853-6. vii, 169 pp.
additional source	Streftaris, N., A. Zenetos & E. Papathanassiou. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogry and Marine Biology: an Annual Review. 43: 419-453.

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

Bock, P. (2025). World List of Bryozoa. Victorella pavida Saville-Kent, 1870. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:111673

Dr. Emmy Woss. Victorella pavida Saville-Kent, 1870. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/42333f3c-df63-4d4d-b76e-7fd50ad5b0d8