CHEILOSTOMATIDA Busk, 1852
(an order of calcified bryozoans)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa
No of
images
No of
ID refs
Suborder 1 ident. refs
Suborder 2 subtaxa 28 images
 (Click to open)
Superfamily 2 subtaxa 28 images
 (Click to open)
Suborder 10 subtaxa 63 images 6 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
OrderCHEILOSTOMATIDA (an order of calcified bryozoans)
ClassGYMNOLAEMATA (a class of bryozoans)
PhylumBRYOZOA (bryozoans, ectoprocts and moss animals)
SuperphylumLOPHOTROCHOZOA (molluscs and relatives)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Hayward, P.J. & Ryland, J.S. 1999 Cheilostomatous Bryozoans, Part 2: Hippothooidae - Celleporoidea (2nd ed) Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series), 14, 2nd edition edition, 416pp, Field Studies Council
Hayward, P.J. & Ryland, J.S. 1998 Cheilostomatous Bryozoa: 1 Aeteoidea-Cribrillinoidea: notes for the identification of the British Species (2nd ed) Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series), 10, 2nd edition edition, Field Studies Council

CHEILOSTOMATIDA (an order of calcified bryozoans) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for CHEILOSTOMATIDA (an order of calcified bryozoans)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 26 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for CHEILOSTOMATIDA (an order of calcified bryozoans)
Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

Photographs from other photographers are used with permission but not included under the above CC licence.

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)