Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia

Bryozoa

Rank: Phylum
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Phylum group names

*Ectoprocta*		synonym

Children

Gymnolaemata
Gymnolaemata Allman, 1856
Phylactolaemata
Stenolaemata Borg, 1926

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: mosdiertjes sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: moss animals; sea mats sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English-United States: moss animals sources: Charles Hussey

Swedish: mossdjur

Literature

basis of record	Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp.
additional source	ITIS database
additional source	Clarke, A.; Johnston, N.M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review 41: 47-114
additional source	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.

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Citation

WoRMS (2014). Bryozoa. 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:146142

Dr Emmy Woss. Bryozoa. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=15424