Beaniidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Bryozoa
Class: Gymnolaemata
Order: Cheilostomatida
Suborder: Flustrina
Family: Beaniidae
Canu & Bassler, 1927
Genera

3, see text

Beaniidae is a small bryozoan family in the cheilostomatan suborder Flustrina and superfamily Buguloidea. Their zooids have a weak box-like shell of calcium carbonate as most Flustrina, and in this family 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.[1]

Genera

Three genera are unequivocally assigned to this family:

  • Amphibiobeania Metcalfe, Gordon & Hayward, 2007
  • Beania Johnston, 1840 (including Dimorphozoum)
  • Stolonella Hincks, 1883

Footnotes

  1. โ†‘ Metcalfe et al. (2007)

References

  • Metcalfe, Kristin; Gordon Dennis P. & Hayward, Ellie (2007): An Amphibious Bryozoan from Living Mangrove Leaves โ€“ Amphibiobeania new genus (Beaniidae). Zool. Sci. 24(6): 563โ€“570. doi:10.2108/zsj.24.563 (HTML abstract)


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