Filifera
Sign in to saveFilifera is a suborder of hydrozoans in the order Anthoathecata. They are found in marine, brackish and freshwater habitats.
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It sits within the topics Anthoathecata and Filifera.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumPorifera
- ClassDemospongiae
- OrderDictyoceratida
- FamilyIrciniidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 9
- Family
- Irciniidae
- Collections
- UF, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE
- Recorded in
- French Polynesia, France
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- Parent taxon
- Anthoathecata
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- PSM V33 D596 Colony hydroid larvae of dysmorphosa magnified.jpg
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Filifera is a suborder of hydrozoans in the order Anthoathecata. They are found in marine, brackish and freshwater habitats.
==Characteristics== Members of this suborder are characterised by the filiform tentacles of the polyps which do not terminate in knobs. The rose corals, family Stylasteridae, secrete calcium carbonate exoskeletons around a network of stolons.
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