''Filicrisia'' is a genus of
bryozoans
Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals) are a phylum of simple, aquatic invertebrate animals, nearly all living in sedentary colonies. Typically about long, they have a special feeding structure called a l ...
belonging to the family
Crisiidae
Crisiidae is a family of bryozoans in the suborder Articulina.
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Crisiidaeat fossilworks
Crisiidaeat WoRMS
Cyclostomatida
Bryozoan families
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Alcide d'Orbigny
Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (6 September 1802 – 30 June 1857) was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology (including malacology), palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthrop ...
,[.] and the type species is ''Filicrisia geniculata''.[
The genus has almost ]cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ext ...
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''Filicrisia'' occurrence data & images
from GBIF
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Bryozoan genera
Taxa named by Alcide d'Orbigny
Taxa described in 1853