Filifera

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Filifera
File:Bougainvillia-ramosa.jpg
Bougainvillia muscus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Anthoathecata
Suborder: Filifera
Kühn, 1913
Families
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Filifera is a suborder of hydrozoans in the order Anthoathecata. They are found in marine, brackish and freshwater habitats.

Characteristics

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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

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File:Museum Histoire Naturelle Geneva Blaschka Neoturris pileata 21102014.jpg
Glass model of Neoturris pileata

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

References

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