Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Candidae
Synonyms: Cebereadae Busk 1852, Cebereidae Busk 1852, Menipeidae Vigneaux 1949, Pseudoporicellariidae d'Hondt 1987, Scrupocellariidae Levinsen 1909, Synaptacellidae Maplestone 1911
Parent taxon: Buguloidea according to E. Di Martino and P. D. Taylor 2014
See also Bassler 1953, Berning 2006, Bock 2006, Brown 1952, Brown 1956, Brown 1958, Canu and Bassler 1935, Cheetham 1972, Gordon 2012, Lee et al. 1997, Pouyet 2000 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxa: Beaniidae, Bugulidae, Epistomiidae, Euoplozoidae, Jubellidae, Rhabdozoidae
Subtaxa: Amastigia Bactrellaria Bobinella Bugulopsis Caberea Cabereopsis Canda Candomenipea Candoscrupocellaria Diplobicellariella Emma Eoscrupocellaria Eupaxia Hoplitella Maplestonia Menipea Monartron Notoplites Notoplitesigia Penemia Pseudoporicellaria Retiscrupocellaria Scrupocellaria Scrupocellarinella Semibugula Synaptacella Tricellaria
Type: Canda
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (4 collections), Greece (2), Greenland (1), New Zealand (2)
• Pliocene of Australia (4), Panama (3), Portugal (1)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Australia (3)
• Miocene of Australia (3), Egypt (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (1), Indonesia (1), Morocco (1), Panama (1), Spain (2), Ukraine (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (2)
• Oligocene of United States (5: Alabama, Mississippi)
• Eocene of New Zealand (1), Tonga (1), United States (5: Florida)
• Cenozoic of Australia (1)
Total: 49 collections including 77 occurrences