Cheilostomatida

Cheilostomatida, also called Cheilostomata, is an order of Bryozoa in the class Gymnolaemata.

species of bryozoan

species of bryozoan

species of bryozoan

species of bryozoan

Flustridae is a family of bryozoans in the suborder Flustrina.

Electridae is a family of bryozoans in the order Cheilostomatida.

Gigantoporidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

Farciminariidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

Myriaporidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

Chaperiidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

The Schizoporellidae is a family within the bryozoan order Cheilostomatida. Colonies are encrusting on shells and rocks or upright bilaminar branches or sheets. The zooidal orifice has a narrow V-shaped sinus.

Calwelliidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

Cupuladriidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

Flustra is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Flustridae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.

Lekythoporidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

Membraniporidae is a bryozoan family in the order Cheilostomatida. Membranipora form encrusting or erect colonies; they are unilaminar or bilaminar and weakly to well-calcified. Zooids have vertical and basal calcified walls, but virtually no frontal calcified wall: most of the frontal surface is occupied by frontal membrane. An intertentacular organ is also present. The larvae are not brooded. The ancestrula is generally twinned. Kenozooids may be present in a few species; modified zooids analogous to avicularia are rare.

Cheiloporinidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

Cleidochasmatidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

Hippopodinidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

Eurystomellidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

Onychocellidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

Pasytheidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

Lepraliellidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

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. Masses of the dead animals can form shallow sediments. Members of the family are recorded from every ocean, even around Antarctica, where they are represented primarily by the genus Osthimosia. Fossils of the family exist as old as from 235 million years ago, during the Triassic period.

Epistomiidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

Beaniidae is a family of bryozoans in the order Cheilostomatida. Their zooids have a weak box-like shell of calcium carbonate as do most species of the suborder Flustrina, and in this family are typically arranged disjunctly, connected by small tubes, and often boat-shaped. One species, Amphibiobeania epiphylla, is the only known amphibious bryozoan known as of 2008/09.

Exechonellidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

Thalamoporellidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

Margarettidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

genus of bryozoans

Mamilloporidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

Triphyllozoon is a genus of bryozoans in the family Phidoloporidae.

Bugula is a genus of common colonial arborescent bryozoa, often mistaken for seaweed. It commonly grows upright in bushy colonies of up to 15 cm in height.

Candidae is a family of gymnolaematan bryozoans (sea mats).

Hiantoporidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

Reteporella is a genus of bryozoans in the family Phidoloporidae.

Watersiporidae is a family of bryozoans in the order Cheilostomatida.

The Smittinidae is a family within the bryozoan order Cheilostomatida. Colonies are encrusting on shells and rocks or upright bilaminar branches or sheets. The zooids generally have at least one adventitious avicularia on their frontal wall near the orifice. The frontal wall is usually covered with small pores and numerous larger pores along the margin. The ovicell, which broods the larvae internally, is double-layered with numerous pores in the outer layer, and sits quite prominently on the frontal wall of the next zooid.

The Adeonidae is a family within the bryozoan order Cheilostomatida. Colonies are often upright bilaminar branches or sheets, perforated by large holes in some species (e.g. Adeona cellulosa). The zooids generally have one or more adventitious avicularia on their frontal wall. Instead of ovicells the adeonids often possess enlarged polymorphs which brood the larvae internally.

Cellariidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

The Microporellidae is a family within the bryozoan order Cheilostomatida.

The Arachnopusiidae is a family within the bryozoan order Cheilostomatida.

Calloporidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida. Like other Bryozoans, most members live in marine and brackish water environments and tend to encrust on hard abiotic and biotic surfaces. This family include over 100 different genera, including renown taxa Callapora lineata.

Phidoloporidae is a family within the bryozoan order Cheilostomatida. The colonies of many genera grow in an upright, reticulate branching manner, which gave rise to one colloquial name for this group as 'lace corals'. Zooids generally open on one side of the branches.

species of bryozoan

Metrarabdotosidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

Jellyella is a genus of bryozoans in the family Membraniporidae.

Celleporina is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Celleporidae.

species of bryozoan

Phoceanidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

Cryptosula is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Cryptosulidae.

Petalostegidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

species of bryozoan

Membranipora is a genus of bryozoans in the family Membraniporidae. A typical example is the widely distributed species Membranipora membranacea that commonly encrusts seaweeds, particularly fronds of the kelps Laminaria digitata, L. hyperborea, and Saccorhiza polyschides.

Schizoporella is a genus of bryozoans in the family Schizoporellidae.

Foveolariidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

Cauloramphus is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Calloporidae.

Colatooeciidae is a family of bryozoans belonging to the order Cheilostomatida.

The Cribrilinidae family is a part of the suborder Flustrina within the bryozoans. They are characterized by numerous spinose ribs (costae) overarching the frontal membrane of each zooid.