Diagnosis: Colony encrusting, sometimes thickly, or small and pedunculate; radially symmetrical or, if extensive, with macular centres. Autozooids and kenozooids free-walled (lacking exterior frontal walls), although some autozooid peristomes fixed-walled. Autozooids arranged radially or quincuncially, flanked or surrounded by kenozooids lacking diaphragms. Brood-chamber roof exterior-walled, entire or pierced by autozooidal peristomes, densely pseudoporous and typically bordered by raised rim; ooeciostome relatively simple tube, ooeciopore generally simple, sometimes flared. (Gordon & Taylor 2001)
This family includes the genera
Densipora corrugata | Favosipora adunca | Flosculipora pygmaea |
Reference: Gordon, D.P., & Taylor, P.D., 2001. New Zealand Recent Densiporidae and Lichenoporidae (Bryozoa: Cyclostomata). Species Diversity, 6: 243-290.