Electridae d'Orbigny, 1851

Colonies encrusting, forming branching chains of discrete zooids, or irregular laminar expansions; often growing on algae or seagrass. Zooids often thinly calcified, less often heavily calcified, with extensive gymnocyst and a large opesia and frontal membrane. Intertentacular organ present. Flexible cuticular or partly calcified spinous processes may extend from the margin of the opesia; in some cases these are branched and spread over the frontal membrane. Larvae free-swimming, planktotrophic, of cyphonautes type. Ovicells and avicularia absent.

This family includes the genera

1. Aspidelectra
2. Bathypora
3. Bullaconopeum
4. Charixa
5. Conopeum
6. Craspedopora
7. Craspedoporina
8. Danocella
9. Electra
10. Eokotosokum
11. Filiflustra (Unidentifiable)
12. Filiflustrellaria
13. Gontarella
14. Harpecia
15. Herpetopora
16. Mychoplectra
17. Pyripora
18. Pyriporopsis
19. Reptoflustrina
20. Samudraka
21. Spinicharixa
22. Villicharixa

Bathypora nitens (thanks to Dennis Gordon, NIWA)	Craspedopora typica (thanks to Dennis Gordon, NIWA)	Electra bellula	Electra pilosa
Mychoplectra crassa	Mychoplectra pocula (thanks to Dennis Gordon, NIWA)	Pyripora catenularia	Samudraka karondiae (thanks to Dennis Gordon, NIWA)
Villicharixa strigosa (thanks to Dennis Gordon, NIWA)

Electra pilosa at Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland.

Conopeum reticulum at MarLIN - Marine Life Information Network for Britain and Ireland.
Electra crustulenta at MarLIN - Marine Life Information Network for Britain and Ireland.
Electra pilosa at MarLIN - Marine Life Information Network for Britain and Ireland.

Electra page at NMITA
Mychoplectra page at NMITA

Conopeum cf tenuissimum - from the California Biota Website.