Synonyms | Author |
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Hippellozoonidae | Vigneaux, 1949 |
Lepralellidae | Smitt, 1868 |
Reteporidae | Smitt, 1868 |
Rhynchozooninae | Vigneaux, 1949 |
Schizoreteporinae | Gregory, 1893 |
Sertellidae | Jullien, 1903 |
Description: Colony generally erect, reticulate, forming a lacey network with zooids opening on one side of the branches, and with extrazooidal calcification on the basal side; colony attachment by thickened extrazooidal calcification at proximal portion. Some colonies are delicate and branching, not forming networks. Some genera are encrusting unilaminar; one forms nodular colonies. Zooid frontal with marginal pores only, surface smooth or pustulose. Zooid orifice with a sinuate or orbicular orifice; primary orifice often obscured by thickening frontal calcification. Articulated oral spines may be present. A tubular pseudospiramen may develop on the proximal side of the peristome by coalescence of the marginal processes. Many genera have a denticulate distal margin to the orifice. Ovicells hyperstomial; prominent initially, becoming immersed in secondary calcification. Proximal margin of orifice may be elaborated into a projecting lip, or straight, or indented. Ovicell frontal may have entire calcification, or may be perforate with a pore, slit, or complex dentate fissure. Avicularia generally present, of varied types in different groups; mainly adventitious, with interzooidal avicularia in a few species.
Image below is of the original family definition, from Gabb & Horn, 1862.
Prepared by courtesy of Mary Spencer-Jones,
Copyright © Natural History Museum, London.
This family includes the genera
Phidolopora pacifica - at the British Columbia Creature Page.
Reteporella beaniana - at Norsk Marine Fauna.
Reteporellina page at NMITA
Rhynchozoon page at NMITA
Schedocleidochasma page at NMITA