Corymorphidae is a

family Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Idea ...

of hydroid

cnidarians Cnidaria () is a phylum under kingdom Animalia containing over 11,000 species of aquatic animals found both in freshwater and marine environments, predominantly the latter. Their distinguishing feature is cnidocytes, specialized cells that the ...

. For long placed in a presumed superfamily or infraorder Tubulariida of suborder Capitata, they are actually close relatives of the Hydridae and are now united with these and a number of relatives in a newly recognized suborder

Aplanulata Aplanulata is a suborder of Hydrozoa, a class of marine and freshwater invertebrates belonging to the phylum Cnidaria. The group have lost its planula larval stage, and the only remnants of the medusa stage is when they functions as gonophores a ...

.Schuchert, P. (2013)
Corymorphidae Allman, 1872.
In: Schuchert, P. (2018). World Hydrozoa Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2018-02-03. Most, if not all species in this family grow on stalks and resemble small flowers. According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following

genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial ...

are contained in this family: *'' Branchiocerianthus'' Mark, 1898 *''

Corymorpha ''Corymorpha'' is a genus of hydrozoans in the family Corymorphidae Corymorphidae is a family of hydroid cnidarians Cnidaria () is a phylum under kingdom Animalia containing over 11,000 species of aquatic animals found both in freshwater ...

'' M. Sars, 1835 *''

Euphysa ''Euphysa'' is a genus of hydrozoans belonging to the family Corymorphidae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world ...

'' Forbes, 1848 *'' Euphysilla'' Kramp, 1955 *'' Gymnogonos'' Bonnevie, 1898 *'' Hataia'' Hirai & Yamada, 1965 *'' Octovannuccia'' Xu, Huang & Lin, 2010 *'' Paraeuphysilla'' Xu, Huang & Go, 2011 *'' Paragotoea'' Kramp, 1942 *'' Pinushydra'' Bouillon & Grohmann, 1990 *'' Siphonohydra'' Salvini-Plawen, 1966

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Aplanulata Cnidarian families {{Anthoathecata-stub