See text Torquatellidae Tilbrook, 2006 Celleporidae is a family of bryozoans – colonial, aquatic, invertebrates – in the order Cheilostomatida.

Structurally, they are defined by densely packed zooids (individual animals which make up the colony).

[1] Masses of the dead animals can form shallow sediments.

[2] Members of the family are recorded from every ocean, even around Antarctica, where they are represented primarily by the genus Osthimosia.

[1][3] Fossils of the family exist as old as from 235 million years ago, during the Triassic period.