Myzostomida

Myzostoma fuscomaculatum on Tropiometra carinata

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Annelida
Ordo: Myzostomida
Familiae: Asteriomyzostomidae – Asteromyzostomidae – Eenymeenymyzostomatidae – Endomyzostomatidae – Myzostomatidae – Protomyzostomidae – Pulvinomyzostomidae

Genera of familia incertae sedis: Contramyzostoma – Cyclocirra – Stelechopus

Name

Myzostomida von Graff, 1877

References

Primary references

• Graff, L. 1877. Das Genus Myzostoma (F. S. Leuckart). Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig. 82 pp. Google Books .

Additional references

• Bleidorn, C., Eeckhaut, I., Podsiadlowski, L., Schult, N., McHugh. D., Halanych, K.M., Milinkovitch, M.C. & Tiedemann, R. 2007. Mitochondrial genome and nuclear sequence data support Myzostomida as part of the annelid radiation. Molecular Biology and Evolution 24(8): 1690–1701. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm086 .
• Bleidorn, C., Podsiadlowski, L., Zhong, M., Eeckhaut, I., Hartmann, S., Halanych, K.M. & Tiedemann, R. 2009. On the phylogenetic position of Myzostomida: can 77 genes get it wrong? BMC Evolutionary Biology 9: 150. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-150 .
• Eeckhaut, I., McHugh, D., Mardulyn, P., Tiedemann, R., Monteyne, D., Jangoux, M. & Milinkovitch, M.C. 2000. Myzostomida: a link between trochozoans and flatworms? Proceedings of the Royal Society (B) 267: 1383–1392. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1154 . JSTOR PDF
• von Graff, L. 1884. Report on the Myzostomida collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Reports of Science Research Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger. Zoology, 10(27): 1-82. BHL Reference page. 
• Helm, C., Bernhart, S.H., Höner zu Siederdissen, C., Nickel, B. & Bleidorn, C. 2012. Deep sequencing of small RNAs confirms an annelid affinity of Myzostomida. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 64(1): 198–203. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.03.017 .
• Lanterbecq, D., Hempson, T., Griffiths, C. & Eeckhaut, I. 2009. Myzostoma fuscomaculatum (Myzostomida), a new myzostome species from False Bay, South Africa. Hydrobiologia 619(1): 145–154. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-008-9606-7 Reference page. 
• Lanterbecq, D., Rouse, G.W., Milinkovitch, M.C. & Eeckhaut, I. 2006. Molecular phylogenetic analyses indicate multiple independent emergences of parasitism in Myzostomida (Protostomia). Systematic Biology 55(2): 208–227. DOI: 10.1080/10635150500481317 . JSTOR
• Summers, M.M., Al-Hakim, I.I. & Rouse, G.W. 2014. Turbo-taxonomy: 21 new species of Myzostomida (Annelida). Zootaxa 3873(4): 301–344. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3873.4.1 Reference page. 
• Zrzavý, J., Hypša, V. & Tietz, D.F. 2001. Myzostomida are not annelids: molecular and morphological support for a clade of animals with anterior sperm flagella. Cladistics 17(2): 170–198. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2001.tb00116.x . Reference page. 
• Zrzavý, J., Říha, P., Piálek, L. & Janouškovec, J. 2009. Phylogeny of Annelida (Lophotrochozoa): total-evidence analysis of morphology and six genes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 9: 189. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-189 .

Links

• Catalogue of Life: 2012 Annual Checklist
• Read, G. (2010). Myzostomida. In: Fauchald, K. (Ed) (2010). World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2010-10-16

Vernacular names

čeština: Lilijicovci
polski: Krążkokształtne, ssącogębe

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