Alternative spelling: Bugulidacea
Parent taxon: Neocheilostomina according to D. P. Gordon 2012
See also Berning 2006, Di Martino and Taylor 2014 and Schmidt 2003
Sister taxa: Adeonoidea, Ascophorina, Austroflustra, Bicorniferidae, Bifaxarioidea, Brettia, Brydonellidae, Catenicelloidea, Cellarioidea, Celleporoidea, Chlidoniopsoidea, Conescharellinoidea, Cuvillieridae, Didymoselloidea, Dysnoetoporoidea, Euthyriselloidea, Flustroidea, Fusicellariidae, Hoeverella, Klugeflustra, Mamilloporoidea, Mourellinidae, Neoflustra, Pseudolepralioidea, Schizoporelloidea, Scorioporoidea, Siphonicytaroidea, Skyloniidae, Smittinoidea, Taeniocellaria, Taenioporinoidea, Urceoliporoidea
Subtaxa: Beaniidae Bugulidae Candidae Epistomiidae Euoplozoidae Jubellidae Rhabdozoidae
Type: Bugula
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder