| Candidae | |
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| Scrupocellaria reptans | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Bryozoa |
| Class: | Gymnolaemata |
| Order: | Cheilostomatida |
| Suborder: | Flustrina |
| Family: | Candidae d'Orbigny, 1851 |
| Genera | |
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Candidae is a family of gymnolaematan bryozoans (sea mats). [1]
Bryozoa are a phylum of simple, aquatic invertebrate animals, nearly all living in sedentary colonies. Typically about 0.5 millimetres long, they have a special feeding structure called a lophophore, a "crown" of tentacles used for filter feeding. Most marine bryozoans live in tropical waters, but a few are found in oceanic trenches and polar waters. The bryozoans are classified as the marine bryozoans (Stenolaemata), freshwater bryozoans (Phylactolaemata), and mostly-marine bryozoans (Gymnolaemata), a few members of which prefer brackish water. 5,869 living species are known. At least two genera are solitary ; the rest are colonial.
Eschrichtiidae or the gray whales is a family of baleen whale with a single extant species, the gray whale, as well as three described fossil genera: Archaeschrichtius and Eschrichtioides from the Miocene and Pliocene of Italy respectively, and Gricetoides from the Pliocene of North Carolina. More recent phylogenetic studies have found this family to be invalid, with its members nesting inside the Balaenopteridae. The names of the extant genus and the family honours Danish zoologist Daniel Eschricht.
The International Bryozoology Association (IBA) is a professional association with international membership specialising in research of the phylum Bryozoa.
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.
Malacostegina is a sub-order of marine, colonial bryozoans in the order Cheilostomatida. The structure of the individual zooids is generally simple, with an uncalcified, flexible frontal wall. This sub-order includes the earliest known cheilostome, in the genus Pyriporopsis (Electridae).
Victorella is a genus of bryozoans in the family Victorellidae.
Lobophora is a genus of thalloid brown seaweed of the Phylum Ochrophyta; Class Phaeophyceae.
Paralicornia hamata is a species of gymnolaematan bryozoans first described from the Queensland coast. Originally placed in the genus Scrupocellaria, it has now been accepted within Paralicornia.
Licornia prolata is a species of gymnolaematan bryozoans first described from the Queensland coast. Originally placed in Scrupocellaria, it has now been accepted within Licornia.
Licornia peltata is a species of gymnolaematan bryozoans first described from the Queensland coast. Originally placed in Scrupocellaria, it has now been accepted within Licornia.
Watersipora is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Watersiporidae.
Paralicornia is a genus of gymnolaematan bryozoans.
Licornia is a genus of gymnolaematan bryozoans.
Beania magellanica is a species of colonial bryozoan in the family Beaniidae. It has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring in shallow waters in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in Antarctica.
Bugulina is a genus of bryozoans in the family Bugulidae.
Canda is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Candidae.
Celleporaria is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Lepraliellidae.
Disporella is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Lichenoporidae.
Hippothoa is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Hippothoidae.
Paralicornia obtecta is a species of bryozoan, found in Australian waters. It has an avicularium with three protrusions, a feature also found in Paralicornia hamata and Paralicornia sinuosa.
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