Acoelomorpha

Neochildia fusca (class Acoela)

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Phylum: Xenacoelomorpha
Subphylum: Acoelomorpha
Classes (2): Acoela – Nemertodermatida

Name

Acoelomorpha Ehlers, 1985

References

basal bilaterian Acoelomorpha

• Cannon, J.T., Vellutini, B.C., Smith, J., Ronquist, F., Jondelius, U. & Hejnol, A. 2016. Xenacoelomorpha is the sister group to Nephrozoa. Nature 530 (7588): 89–93. DOI: 10.1038/nature16520 . Reference page. 
• Hejnol, A., Obst, M., Stamatakis, A., Ott, M., Rouse, G.W., Edgecombe, G.D., Martinez, P., Baguñà, J., Bailly, X., Jondelius, U., Wiens, M., Müller W.E.G., Seaver, E., Wheer, W.C., Martindale, M.Q., Giribet, G. & Dunn, C.W. 2009. Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B) 276(1677): 4261–4270. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0896 . Reference page. 

paraphyletic basal bilaterian Acoelomorpha

• Paps, J., Baguñà, J. & Riutort, M. 2009. Bilaterian phylogeny: a broad sampling of 13 nuclear genes provides a new Lophotrochozoa phylogeny and supports a paraphyletic basal Acoelomorpha. Molecular Biology and Evolution 26(10): 2397–2406. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msp150 . Reference page. 
• Wallberg, A., Curini-Galletti, M., Ahmadzadeh, A. & Jondelius, U. 2007. Dismissal of Acoelomorpha: Acoela and Nemertodermatida are separate early bilaterian clades. Zoologica Scripta 36(5): 509–523. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2007.00295.x . Reference page. 

deuterostome theory

• Philippe, H., Brinkmann, H., Copley, R.R., Moroz, L.L., Nakano, H., Poustka, A.J., Wallberg, A., Peterson, K.J. & Telford, M.J. 2011. Acoelomorph flatworms are deuterostomes related to Xenoturbella. Nature 470: 255–258. DOI: 10.1038/nature09676 Reference page. 
• Tyler, S. & Schilling, S. 2011. Phylum Xenacoelomorpha Philippe, et al., 2011. Pp 24–25 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page.  PDF. Reference page. 

Links

• EoL
• WoRMS (2011). Acoelomorpha. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=380603 on 2011-12-23

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