Filifera

Filifera is a suborder of hydrozoans in the order Anthoathecata. They are found in marine, brackish and freshwater habitats.

For a genus of sea sponges, see Ircinia.

Filifera
Bougainvillia muscus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Anthoathecata
Suborder: Filifera
Kühn, 1913
Families
See text

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.[1]

Families
Glass model of Neoturris pileata

According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following families are found in this suborder :[2]

  • 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)
  • Similiclavidae Calder, Choong & McDaniel, 2015
  • Stylasteridae Gray, 1847
  • Trichydridae Hincks, 1868
  • Tubiclavoididae Moura, Cunha & Schuchert, 2007

References
  1. Ruppert, Edward E.; Fox, Richard, S.; Barnes, Robert D. (2004). Invertebrate Zoology, 7th edition. Cengage Learning. p. 167. ISBN 978-81-315-0104-7.
  2. Schuchert, Peter (2015). "Filifera". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
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