Welcome to BryoZone!

What is it:

BryoZone is an Interactive Global Reference for Phylum Bryozoa. BryoZone aims to foster preservation and dissemination of scientific knowledge of this diverse phylum of colonial invertebrate animals, abundantly represented in marine, estuarine and freshwater habitats.

BryoZone was initially supported by a grant from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and is hosted at the Field Museum in Chicago Illinois.

Features:

• Taxonomy of Bryozoan Families and Genera
• Current taxa extend to Genus level for Cheilostomata & Cyclostomata
• Current taxa extend to Family level for Ctenostomata, Cryptostomida, Cystoporida, Fenestrida, Hederellida & Trepostomatida
• Phylactolaemata are not yet included below Class level
• Synonymy of Genus names in Cheilostomata, Ctenostomata & Cyclostomata (in progress)
• Taxonomy of Bryozoan Species (in progress)
• Literary References
• Image Library (SEMs and original illustrations of type & non-type material, underwater photographs, unpublished notes of significant past taxonomists) (future)
• Species Biogeographic Occurrences Table (future)
• Distribution Basemaps (future)
• Illustrated Glossary of Bryozoan Terminology (future)