Beaniidae

Beaniidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Superphylum: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Bryozoa
Class: Gymnolaemata
Order: Cheilostomata
Suborder: Flustrina
Superfamily: Buguloidea
Family: Beaniidae
Canu & Bassler, 1927
Genera

3, see text

Beaniidae is a small bryozoan family in the cheilostomatan suborder Flustrina. 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]

There are a mere 3 genera unequivocally assigned to this family:

Footnotes

  1. Metcalfe et al. (2007)

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