Synonyms | Author |
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Electrinidae | 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
Arbocuspis bellula | Arbocuspis bicornis | Arbocuspis emanuelae | Arbocuspis multicornis |
Arbocuspis ramosa | Arbopercula angulata | Arbopercula bengalensis | Bathypora nitens (thanks to Dennis Gordon, NIWA) |
Conopeum nakanosum | Conopeum tenuissimum | Craspedopora typica (thanks to Dennis Gordon, NIWA) |
Einhornia korobokkura (Thanks to Matt Dick) |
Electra asiatica | Electra pilosa | Kenocharixa goshouraensis | Kenocharixa kashimaensis |
Mychoplectra crassa | Mychoplectra pocula (thanks to Dennis Gordon, NIWA) |
Pyripora catenularia | Tarsocryptus laboriosus |
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.
Einhornia 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.
Conopeum commensale at The Bryozoans of the Pacific.