Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Bryozoa > Class Gymnolaemata > Order Ctenostomatida > Suborder Alcyonidiina > Superfamily Alcyonidioidea

Alcyonidiidae Johnston, 1837

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Lobiancoporidae*	Delage & Herouard, 1897	synonym

Children

Alcyonidioides d'Hondt, 2001
Alcyonidium Lamouroux, 1813
Lobiancopora Pergens, 1889

Literature

original description	Johnston, G. (1837). A history of British Zoophytes. W. H. Lizars, Edinburgh, London & Dublin. 1-341.
basis of record	Hayward, P.J. (2001). Bryozoa, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 325-333
additional source	Reverter Gil, Oscar
additional source	Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp.
taxonomy source	Williams, R. B. (2018). Determination of the publication date of George Johnston's “A catalogue of the zoophytes of Berwickshire”, with nomenclatural consequences for some cnidarian and bryozoan family‐groups. Zoological Bibliography. 6(5): 49-53.