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.
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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.
== Description == Members of family share a lot of the distinct characters shown in other members of Bryozoa, including the presence of internal cavities that resemble a coelomic cavity Like other members in the phylum, Calloporidae all live in colonies of individuals referred to as zoids. Pores connecting individuals in colonies are important for zoid communication and reproduction. They possess extensive calcification under epithelial cell layers within the frontal wall of individual zoid organisms within colonies with the addition of spines in many species like the distal set of spines seen in the species Callopora horrida. Spines and calcareous tissue may serve the purpose of protecting the organism. Differentiation is seen between different zooid types; with feeding zooids, autozooids, seen to be present in most taxa.
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