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Filifera

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Kingdom
  
Rank
  
Suborder

Subclass
  
Hydroida

Phylum
  
Order
  
Anthomedusae

Filifera

Similar
  
Anthomedusae, Capitata, Bougainvilliidae, Pandeidae, Eudendriidae

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Filifera is a suborder of Hydrozoa, a class of marine invertebrates belonging to the phylum Cnidaria. They are found in marine, brackish and freshwater habitats.

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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.

Families

According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following families are found in this suborder :

  • Australomedusidae Russell, 1971
  • Axoporidae Boschma, 1951 †
  • Balellidaev Stechow, 1922
  • Bougainvilliidae Lütken, 1850
  • Bythotiaridae Maas, 1905
  • Clathrozoellidae Peña Cantero, Vervoort & Watson, 2003
  • Cordylophoridae von Lendenfeld, 1885
  • Cytaeididae L. Agassiz, 1862
  • Eucodoniidae Schuchert, 1996
  • Eudendriidae L. Agassiz, 1862
  • Filifera incertae sedis
  • Heterotentaculidae Schuchert, 2010
  • Hydractiniidae L. Agassiz, 1862
  • Jeanbouilloniidae Pagès, Flood & Youngbluth, 2006
  • Magapiidae Schuchert & Bouillon, 2009
  • Niobiidae Petersen, 1979
  • Oceaniidae Eschscholtz, 1829
  • Pandeidae Haeckel, 1879
  • Proboscidactylidae Hand & Hendrickson, 1950
  • Protiaridae Haeckel, 1879
  • Ptilocodiidae Coward, 1909
  • Rathkeidae Russell, 1953
  • Rhysiidae (Hickson & Gravely, 1907)
  • Stylasteridae Gray, 1847
  • Trichydridae Hincks, 1868
  • Tubiclavoididae Moura, Cunha & Schuchert, 2007
  • References

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