Plumularioidea is a
superfamily
SUPERFAMILY is a database and search platform of structural and functional annotation for all proteins and genomes. It classifies amino acid sequences into known structural domains, especially into SCOP superfamilies. Domains are functional, str ...
of hydrozoans in the
order
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* Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood
* Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...
Leptothecata.
This superfamily unites about 45
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 nomenclat ...
in the following
families:
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Aglaopheniidae
Aglaopheniidae is a family of hydrozoans.
Genera
According to the World Register of Marine Species, these genera belong to this family:
* ''Aglaophenia'' Lamouroux, 1812
* '' Aglaophenopsis'' Fewkes, 1881
* '' Carpocladus'' Vervoort & Watson, 2 ...
Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1890
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Halopterididae
Halopterididae is a family of hydrozoans.
According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following genera belong to the family Halopterididae:
*'' Anarthroclada'' Naumov, 1955
*'' Antennella'' Allman, 1877
*'' Antennellopsis'' Jäderhol ...
Millard, 1962
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Kirchenpaueriidae
Kirchenpaueriidae is a family of hydrozoans in the superfamily Plumularioidea. Their hydrocladia are characteristically set in an alternating fashion as one progresses along the stems, forming two neat rows except in '' Oswaldella laertesi'', w ...
Stechow, 1921
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Phylactothecidae Stechow, 1921
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Plumaleciidae
''Plumalecium'' is a monotypic genus of cnidaria
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 distinguis ...
Choong & Calder, 2018
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Plumulariidae
Plumulariidae is a family (biology), family of hydrozoans.
Genus
According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following genus, genera belong to this family:
*''Callicarpa (hydrozoan), Callicarpa'' Fewkes, 1881
*''Cladacanthella'' Calde ...
McCrady, 1859
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Schizotrichidae
''Schizotricha'' is a genus of cnidarians belonging to the monotypic family Schizotrichidae.
The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across a ...
Peña Cantero, Sentandreu & Latorre, 2010
These
thecate hydroids grow in erect colonies, branched in some
species but unbranched in others. Each branch may bear a single or several animals. In the latter case the