title: List of Bryozoa of Ireland
text: # List of Bryozoa of Ireland
  
  There are 100 species of Bryozoa (moss animals) recorded in Ireland.
  
  ## Order Cheilostomata
  
  ### Family Adeonidae
  
  * Reptadeonella violacea
  
  ### Family Aeteidae
  
  * Aetea anguina
  * Aetea truncata
  
  ### Family Bitectiporidae
  
  * Pentapora fascialis
  * Schizomavella linearis
  * Schizomavella sarniensis
  
  ### Family Bryocryptellidae
  
  * Palmiskenea skenei
  * Porella compressa
  
  ### Family Bugulidae
  
  * Bicellariella ciliata
  * Bugula angustiloba
  * Bugula avicularia
  * Bugula calathus
  * Bugula fulva
  * Bugula neritina
  * Bugula plumosa
  * Bugula purpurotincta
  * Bugula stolonifera
  * Bugula turbinata
  
  ### Family Candidae
  
  * Caberea boryi
  * Caberea ellisii
  * Scrupocellaria reptans
  * Scrupocellaria scrupea
  * Scrupocellaria scruposa
  
  ### Family Calloporidae
  
  * Callopora lineata
  * Callopora rylandi
  * Cauloramphus spiniferum
  
  ### Family Cellariidae
  
  * Cellaria fistulosa
  * Cellaria salicornioides
  * Cellaria sinuosa
  
  ### Family Celleporidae
  
  * Buskea dichotoma
  * Buskea quincuncialis
  * Cellepora pumicosa
  * Celleporina caliciformis
  * Omalosecosa ramulosa
  * Turbicellepora avicularis
  
  ### Family Cribrilinidae
  
  * Cribrilina cryptooecium
  
  ### Family Cryptosulidae
  
  * Cryptosula pallasiana
  
  ### Family Diastoporidae
  
  * Diplosolen obelia
  
  ### Family Electridae
  
  * Electra pilosa
  
  ### Family Escharellidae
  
  various species
  
  ### Family Escharinidae
  
  * Phaeostachys spinifera
  
  ### Family Eucrateidae
  
  * Eucratea loricata
  
  ### Family Exochellidae
  
  * Escharoides coccinea
  
  ### Family Flustridae
  
  * Carbasea carbasea
  * Chartella papyracea
  * Flustra foliacea
  * Securiflustra securifrons
  
  ### Family Haplopomidae
  
  * Haplopoma impressum
  
  ### Family Hippothoidae
  
  * Celleporella hyalina
  
  ### Family Membraniporidae
  
  * Conopeum reticulum
  * Conopeum seurati
  * Membranipora membranacea
  
  ### Family Microporellidae
  
  * Fenestrulina malusii
  
  ### Family Phidoloporidae
  
  * Reteporella beaniana
  * Reteporella grimaldii
  
  ### Family Schizoporellidae
  
  * Schizoporella unicornis
  
  ### Family Scrupariidae
  
  * Scruparia chelata
  
  ### Family Smittinidae
  
  * Parasmittina trispinosa
  * Smittina affinis
  * Smittoidea reticulata
  
  ### Family Umbonulidae
  
  * Oshurkovia littoralis
  
  ## Order Ctenostomatida
  
  ### Family Alcyonidiidae
  
  * Alcyonidioides mytili
  * Alcyonidium diaphanum
  * Alcyonidium gelatinosum
  * Alcyonidium hirsutum
  * Alcyonidium parasiticum
  
  ### Family Flustrellidridae
  
  * Flustrellidra hispida
  
  ### Family Vesiculariidae
  
  * Amathia lendigera
  * Bowerbankia imbricata
  * Bowerbankia pustulosa
  * Vesicularia spinosa
  
  ## Order Cyclostomatida
  
  ### Family Crisiidae
  
  * Crisia aculeata
  * Crisia denticulata
  * Crisia eburnea
  * Crisidia cornuta
  * Filicrisia geniculata
  
  ### Family Lichenoporidae
  
  * Disporella hispida
  
  ### Family Plagioeciidae
  
  * Plagioecia patina
  
  ### Family Tubuliporidae
  
  * Tubulipora liliacea
  * Tubulipora plumosa
  