Parent taxon: Neocheilostomina according to D. P. Gordon and P. D. Taylor 2015
See also Berning 2006, Di Martino and Taylor 2015, Gordon 2012, Gordon et al. 1994, Guha and Gopikrishna 2007 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxa: Adeonoidea, Ascophorina, Austroflustra, Bicorniferidae, Bifaxarioidea, Brettia, Brydonellidae, Buguloidea, Catenicelloidea, Cellarioidea, Chlidoniopsoidea, Conescharellinoidea, Cuvillieridae, Didymoselloidea, Dysnoetoporoidea, Euthyriselloidea, Flustroidea, Fusicellariidae, Hoeverella, Klugeflustra, Mamilloporoidea, Mourellinidae, Neoflustra, Pseudolepralioidea, Schizoporelloidea, Scorioporoidea, Siphonicytaroidea, Skyloniidae, Smittinoidea, Taeniocellaria, Taenioporinoidea, Urceoliporoidea
Subtaxa: Celleporidae Colatooeciidae Hippoporidridae Phidoloporidae Pseudostega Torquatellidae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder