Belongs within: Cheilostomata.
Beaniidae is a family of bryozoans forming reticulate sheets or diffuse uniserial colonies, loosely attached to their substratum or attached by rhizoids (Tilbrook et al. 2001). The frontal surface of the autozooids is generally membranous.
<==Beaniidae |--Bugulella clavata Hincks 1887THG01 `--Beania Johnston 1840THG01 |--*B. mirabilis Johnston 1840THG01 |--B. bermudezi Lagaaij 1968T93 |--B. cookae Tilbrook, Hayward & Gordon 2001THG01 |--B. discodermiae Harmer 1926THG01 |--B. hexamicorum Tilbrook, Hayward & Gordon 2001THG01 |--B. hirtissimaM62 |--B. intermedia (Hincks 1881)THG01 |--B. klugei Cook 1968 [=Bugula klugei]THG01 `--B. petiolata Harmer 1926THG01
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[M62] Monniot, F. 1962. Recherches sur les graviers a Amphioxus de la région de Banyuls-sur-Mer. Vie et Milieu 13: 231–322.
[T93] Taylor, P. D. 1993. Bryozoa. In: Benton, M. J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2 pp. 465–489. Chapman & Hall: London.
[THG01] Tilbrook, K. J., P. J. Hayward & D. P. Gordon. 2001. Cheilostomatous Bryozoa from Vanuatu. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 131: 35–109.