Plumulariidae is a family of hydrozoans.
Genus According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following genera belong to this family: Callicarpa Fewkes, 1881 Cladacanthella Calder, 1997 Dentitheca Stechow, 1919 Hippurella Allman, 1877 Nemertesia Lamouroux, 1812 Plumularia Lamarck, 1816 Pseudoplumaria Ramil & Vervoort, 1992 Schizoplumularia Ansín Agís, Ramil & Calder, 2016 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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