Bugulidae is a family of
bryozoans
Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals) are a phylum of simple, aquatic animal, aquatic invertebrate animals, nearly all living in sedentary Colony (biology), colonies. Typically about long, they have a spe ...
belonging to the order
Cheilostomatida
Cheilostomatida, also called Cheilostomata, is an order of Bryozoa in the class Gymnolaemata.
They are exclusively marine, colonial invertebrate animals. Cheilostome colonies are composed of calcium carbonate and grow on a variety of surfaces, ...
.
Genera
The World Register of Marine Species lists the following genera:-
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*'' Beanodendria'' d'Hondt & Gordon, 1996
*'' Bicellariella'' Levinsen, 1909
*'' Bicellarina'' Levinsen, 1909
*'' Brettiella'' Gordon, 1984
*'' Bugula'' Oken, 1815
*'' Bugularia'' Levinsen, 1909
*'' Bugulella'' Verrill, 1879
*'' Bugulina'' Gray, 1848
*'' Bugulopsis'' Verrill, 1880
*'' Calyptozoum'' Harmer, 1926
*'']Camptoplites
''Camptoplites'' is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Bugulidae.
The species of this genus are found in almost all world oceans.
Species:
*'' Camptoplites abyssicolus''
*'' Camptoplites angustus''
*'' Camptoplites antarcticus''
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'' Harmer, 1923
*'' Carolanna'' Gordon, 2021
*'' Caulibugula'' Verrill, 1900
*'' Cornucopina'' Levinsen, 1909
*'' Corynoporella'' Hincks, 1888
*'' Crisularia'' Gray, 1848
*'' Cuneiforma'' d'Hondt & Schopf, 1985
*'' Dendrobeania'' Levinsen, 1909
*'' Dimetopia'' Busk, 1852
*'' Falsibugulella'' Liu, 1984
*'' Farciminellopsis'' Silén, 1941
*''Halophila
''Halophila'' is a genus of seagrasses in the family '' Hydrocharitaceae'', the tape-grasses. It was described as a genus in 1806. The number of its contained species, and its own placement in the order Alismatales, has evolved.
Description
T ...
'' Gray, 1843
*'' Himantozoum'' Harmer, 1923
*'' Himantozoumella'' d'Hondt & Schopf, 1985
*'' Kinetoskias'' Danielssen, 1868
*'' Klugella'' Hastings, 1943
*'' Luguba'' Gordon, 1984
*'' Nordgaardia'' Kluge, 1962
*'' Semidendrobeania'' d'Hondt & Schopf, 1985
*'' Semikinetoskias'' Silén, 1941
*'' Sessibugula'' Osburn, 1950
*'' Thaminozoum'' d'Hondt & Gordon, 1996
*'' Uschakovia'' Kluge, 1946
*'' Virididentula'' Fehlauer-Ale, Winston, Tilbrook, Nascimento & Vieira, 2015
*'' Xenoflustra'' Moyano, 2011
References
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Bryozoan families