Parent taxon: Cheilostomata according to A. H. Cheetham 1972
See also Bassler 1953, Boardman and Cheetham 1987, Brown 1952, Brown 1956, Brown 1958, Canu and Bassler 1920, Canu and Bassler 1935, Cheetham 1962, Di Martino and Taylor 2014, Pouyet 2000 and Scolaro 1970
Sister taxa: Adeonellidae, Aegyptopora, Ascophorina, Atacama, Batoporidae, Biavicularium, Bicornifera, Bifissurinella, Boreasina, Brydonella, Bubnoffiella, Buffonella, Buffonellodidae, Calescharidae, Calvina, Catenicellidae, Chasmazoon, Cheilohorneropsis, Chiplonkarinidae, Chlidoniidae, Chlidoniopsidae, Christinella, Cillia, Cleidochasma, Craspedoporina, Cryptosulidae, Cyclicoporidae, Didymosellidae, Diplobeisselina, Diplorula, Discovibracella, Ditaxiporina, Dysnoetocella, Eohippotha, Eoscrupocellaria, Escharellidae, Escharinidae, Exochellidae, Fissuricella, Flustrella, Flustrina, Gemelliporellidae, Geminella, Grammothoa, Haplopomella, Helix, Helixotionella, Hemeschara, Hincksiporidae, Hippopodinidae, Hippoporidridae, Hippothoidae, Hoeverella, Hopora, Hormerella, Kronothoa, Kylonisa, Lacrimula, Latereschara, Laterotecatia, Lepraliidae, Lunulariidae, Malacostegina, Mamilloporidae, Marquetta, Membraniporina, Metrarabdotosidae, Monticellaria, Mosathoa, Neliella, Neocheilostomina, Nudonychocella, Obliquostoma, Ochetosellina, Onychocellaria, Orbituliporidae, Otionellidae, Paravinella, Parobeisselina, Pasytheidae, Pavolunuites, Petaloconchus, Pnictoporopsis, Poricellariidae, Porismittina, Porometra, Pseudobeisselma, Pseudolunulites, Quadricellariidae, Quadriscutella, Radulopora, Revssirella, Rhabdotometra, Savignyellidae, Schizemiellopsis, Schizotrema, Sclerodomidae, Scorioporidae, Setosellidae, Skylonia, Solenonychocella, Sphaerulobryozoon, Staurosteginopora, Stenopsis, Stichtostega, Sylonika, Taeniocellana, Taenioporella, Tessaradomidae, Teuchoporidae, Thalamoporellidae, Thecatia, Tornipora, Tremocoscinopleura, Tricornicella, Tshokrakopora, Tubescharina, Umbonulidae, Uniavicularia, Vinculariidae, Virgocella, Voorthuyseniella, Wawalia, Xaveropora
Subtaxa: Bicellariellidae Cellularina Coilostega Cribrimorpha Farciminariidae Inovicellata Malacostega Opesiulidae Pseudostega Pyriporopsis Scrupariina Scrupocellariidae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder