Catenicellidae Busk, 1852

Colonies erect, flexible, jointed, anchored by rhizoids; internodes normally of one to three autozooids, with cuticular connecting tubes. Zooid calcification typically smooth gymnocyst; frontal area may include a costal field, a group of windows, or be imperforate. Marginal kenozooids, or pore-chambers, usually with a window over a calcified gymnocyst with communication pores, sometimes elongate (vittae). Distal kenozooids may be elongate and pointed. Orifice D-shaped, or with proximal margin concave or sinuate. Central frontal pore opening to compensation space present in few species. Avicularia single or paired, disto-lateral, or absent. Brooding zooids with enlarged ovicells developed in several ways; either at a branch termination, in line with an autozooid, or as one of a group of two or three autozooids.

This family includes the genera


Ahcheethamia corniculata (thanks to Dennis Gordon)	Bryosartor sutilis (thanks to Dennis Gordon)	Caberoides canaliculata (thanks to Dennis Gordon)	Calpidium ornatum

Calpidium ponderosum	Catenicella buskii	Catenicella elegans	Catenicella formosa

Catenicella hannafordi	Catenicella perlucens	Catenicella ringens	Catenicella utriculus

Claviporella aurita	Claviporella longicollis	Cornuticellina matthewsi	Costaticella benecostata

Costaticella hiulca	Costaticella latifrons	Costaticella peltata	Costaticella sp.

Costatimorpha algella	Cribricellina rufa	Ditaxipora internodia	Ditaxiporina septentrionalis (Thanks to Dennis Gordon)

Orthoscuticella marginata	Orthoscuticella sp.	Plagiopora disticha	Pterocella elongata

Pterocella gemella	Scalicella crystallina	Scuticella plagiostoma	Stenostomaria solida

Strongylopora gracilis	Strongylopora pulchella	Strophipora harveyi	Talivittaticella nuda

Vasignyella otophora (thanks to Dennis Gordon, NIWA)	Vasignyella ovicellata (thanks to Leandro Vieira)