Plumulariidae is a family of .
Genus
According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following
genus belong to this family:
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Callicarpa Fewkes, 1881
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Cladacanthella Calder, 1997
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Dentitheca Stechow, 1919
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Hippurella Allman, 1877
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Nemertesia Lamouroux, 1812
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Plumularia Lamarck, 1816
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Pseudoplumaria Ramil & Vervoort, 1992
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Schizoplumularia Ansín Agís, Ramil & Calder, 2016
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Sibogella Billard, 1911
Plumularidae of America (1900)
Charles Cleveland Nutting, an American zoologist, wrote the first survey of what he then called 'Plumularidæ' of America in 1900.
[, see also: review of Nutting 1900 in The Zoologist, 4th series vol 5, issue 719 (May, 1901), p. 191] Before him,
Louis Agassiz had mentioned only three species in 1862. His son Alexander Agassiz recognized six species. In 1877 George Allman described twenty-six species. Nutting
gives descriptions and figures of about one hundred and twenty-one species! He writes:
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