{{Short description|Family of moss animals}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Scrupocellaria reptans 001.png | image_caption =''Scrupocellaria reptans'' | taxon = Candidae | authority = d'Orbigny, 1851 | subdivision = See text | synonyms = * Cabereidae <small>Busk, 1852</small> * Scrupocellariidae <small>Levinsen, 1909</small> }}

'''Candidae''' is a family of gymnolaematan bryozoans (sea mats).<ref name="WoRMS">{{cite WoRMS |title=Candidae |id=110734 |accessdate=11 April 2020}}</ref>

== Genera == The following genera are recognised in the family Candidae:<ref>{{Cite web |title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Candidae d'Orbigny, 1851 |url=https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=110734 |access-date=2025-08-22 |website=www.marinespecies.org}}</ref> {{div col begin|colwidth=30em}}

* ''Amastigia'' {{small|Busk, 1852}} * ''Aquiloniella'' {{small|Vieira, Spencer Jones, Winston, Migotto & Marques, 2014}} * ''Aspiscellaria'' {{small|Vieira, Spencer Jones, Winston, Migotto & Marques, 2014}} * †''Bactrellaria'' {{small|Marsson, 1887}} * ''Bathycellaria'' {{small|Vieira, Spencer Jones, Winston, Migotto & Marques, 2014}} * ''Bobinella'' {{small|d'Hondt, 1981}} * ''Bugulopsis'' {{small|Verrill, 1880}} * ''Caberea'' {{small|Lamouroux, 1816}} * ''Cabereopsis'' {{small|Hasenbank, 1932}} * ''Canda'' {{small|Lamouroux, 1816}} * ''Candoscrupocellaria'' {{small|d'Hondt & Gordon, 1996}} * ''Cradoscrupocellaria'' {{small|Vieira, Spencer Jones & Winston, 2013}} * ''Diplobicellariella'' {{small|d'Hondt, 1985}} * ''Emma'' {{small|Gray, 1843}} * †''Eoscrupocellaria'' {{small|Voigt, 1991}} * ''Eupaxia'' {{small|Hasenbank, 1932}} * ''Hoplitella'' {{small|Levinsen, 1909}} * ''Licornia'' {{small|van Beneden, 1850}} * ''Maplestonia'' {{small|MacGillivray, 1885}} * ''Menipea'' {{small|Lamouroux, 1812}} * ''Monartron'' {{small|Canu & Bassler, 1929}} * ''Notoplites'' {{small|Harmer, 1923}} * ''Notoplitesigia'' {{small|d'Hondt, 1987}} * ''Paralicornia'' {{small|Vieira, Spencer Jones, Winston, Migotto & Marques, 2014}} * ''Penemia'' {{small|Gordon, 1986}} * ''Pomocellaria'' {{small|Vieira, Spencer Jones, Winston, Migotto & Marques, 2014}} * ''Pseudoporicellaria'' {{small|d'Hondt, 1987}} * ''Scrupocaberea'' {{small|Vieira, Spencer Jones, Winston, Migotto & Marques, 2014}} * ''Scrupocellaria'' {{small|van Beneden, 1845}} * ''Scrupocellarinella'' {{small|d'Hondt & Schopf, 1985}} * ''Scutoplites'' {{small|Reverter-Gil, Souto & Berning, 2025}} * ''Semibugula'' {{small|Kluge, 1929}} * ''Sinocellaria'' {{small|Vieira, Spencer Jones, Winston, Migotto & Marques, 2014}} * †''Synaptacella'' {{small|Maplestone, 1911}} * ''Tricellaria'' {{small|Fleming, 1828}} {{div col end}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading== *Badve, R. M., and M. A. Sonar. "Some fossil neocheilostomine bryozoans from the Holocene of the west coast of Maharashtra and Goa, India." Jour. Palaeontol. Soc. India 42 (1997): 35–48. *GORDON, Dennis. "Bryozoa of New Caledonia." Compendium of marine species of New Caledonia. Documents scientifiques et techniques (2006): 157–168. *Vieira, Leandro M., et al. "Evidence for polyphyly of the genus Scrupocellaria (Bryozoa: Candidae) based on a phylogenetic analysis of morphological characters." PLoS ONE 9.4 (2014): e95296. *Vieira, Leandro M., et al. "Evidence for polyphyly of the genus Scrupocellaria (Bryozoa: Candidae) based on a phylogenetic analysis of morphological characters." PLoS ONE 9.4 (2014): e95296.

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Category:Cheilostomatida Category:Taxa described in 1851

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