Celleporidae Temporal range:
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Cellepora pumicosa photographed at Sula Sgeir, Scotland | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Bryozoa |
Class: | Gymnolaemata |
Order: | Cheilostomatida |
Suborder: | Flustrina |
Superfamily: | Celleporoidea |
Family: |
Celleporidae Johnston, 1838 |
Genera | |
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Synonyms | |
Torquatellidae Tilbrook, 2006 |
Celleporidae is a family of bryozoans – colonial, aquatic, invertebrates – in the order Cheilostomatida. Structurally, they are defined by densely packed zooids (individual animals which make up the colony). The zooids usually have irregular direction, and are defined by morphological characteristics. [1] Masses of the dead animals can form shallow sediments. [2] Members of the family are recorded from every ocean, even around Antarctica, where they are represented primarily by the genus Osthimosia. [1] [3] Fossils of the family exist as old as from 235 million years ago, during the Triassic period. [4]
Celleporidae Temporal range:
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Cellepora pumicosa photographed at Sula Sgeir, Scotland | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Bryozoa |
Class: | Gymnolaemata |
Order: | Cheilostomatida |
Suborder: | Flustrina |
Superfamily: | Celleporoidea |
Family: |
Celleporidae Johnston, 1838 |
Genera | |
See text | |
Synonyms | |
Torquatellidae Tilbrook, 2006 |
Celleporidae is a family of bryozoans – colonial, aquatic, invertebrates – in the order Cheilostomatida. Structurally, they are defined by densely packed zooids (individual animals which make up the colony). The zooids usually have irregular direction, and are defined by morphological characteristics. [1] Masses of the dead animals can form shallow sediments. [2] Members of the family are recorded from every ocean, even around Antarctica, where they are represented primarily by the genus Osthimosia. [1] [3] Fossils of the family exist as old as from 235 million years ago, during the Triassic period. [4]