Membraniporidae

Membraniporidae: Membraniporidae

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Bryozoa

Class: Gymnolaemata

Order: Cheilostomata

Suborder: Malacostegina

Family: Membraniporidae
Busk, 1854

Genera

Malacostega. Membranipora form encrusting or erect colonies; they are unilaminar or bilaminar and weakly to well-calcified. Zooids have vertical and basal calcified walls, but virtually no frontal calcified wall: most of the frontal surface is occupied by frontal membrane. An intertentacular organ is also present. The larvae are not brooded. The ancestrula is generally twinned. Kenozooids may be present in a few species; modified zooids analogous to avicularia are rare.

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