Setosella vulnerata is reported from the NE Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea (images of the lectotype; courtesy of B. Berning and the NHMUK)
Original description: Membranipora vulnerata Busk, 1860.
Locality: Shetland Islands
Type specimen: lectotype NHMUK 1899.7.1.1487; paralectotype NHMUK 1911.10.1.760.