Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Bryozoa > Class Gymnolaemata > Order Cheilostomatida > Suborder Neocheilostomatina > Infraorder Ascophora > Kingdom Lepraliomorpha > Superfamily Smittinoidea > Family Bitectiporidae > Genus Pentapora

Pentapora foliacea (Ellis & Solander, 1786)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pentapora*	Fischer, 1807	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

French: bryosoaire orange; rode de mer

Literature

basis of record	Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
source of synonymy	Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (1999). Cheilostomatous Bryozoa: part 2 Hippothooidea - Celleporoidea: notes for the identification of British species. 2nd ed.. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 14. Field Studies Council: Shrewsbury, UK. ISBN 1-85153-263-3. vii, 416 pp.
new combination reference	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

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
GBIF

Citation

Bock, P. (2014). Pentapora foliacea. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:150672