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Arachnidiidae
Nomenclature
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Unranked: StoloniferinaUnranked: Arachnidioidea
Unranked:
Arachnidiidae
SUMMARY
Bryozoans in this family form encrusting colonies; autozooids repent, budded in ramifying, linear series, forming an open network over the surface of the substratum. Autozooids usually finely tapered proximally; cross-connections may form between zooids through the linking of buds, and appear superficially to represent stolons. Kenozooids absent. Orifice distally situation, often papillate.
(Hayward, 1985)