Beaniidae
Family of moss animals
| Beaniidae | |
|---|---|
Scientific 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)
- Beania magellanica
- Stolonella Hincks, 1883
Footnotes
- ^ Metcalfe et al. (2007)
References
- doi:10.2108/zsj.24.563 (HTML abstract)
External links
- Beaniidae photos at bryozoa.net
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