Platyzoa

This taxon is (or may be) paraphyletic

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Platyzoa
Phyla: Acanthocephala – Cycliophora – Gastrotricha – Gnathostomulida – Mesozoa – Micrognathozoa – Platyhelminthes – Rotifera

Note:

Prosomastigozoa [Zrzavý, Hypša & Tietz (2001)]: Cycliophora – Myzostomida – Syndermata
Gnathifera: Gnathostomulida – Micrognathozoa – Syndermata
Syndermata: Acanthocephala – Rotifera

Name

Platyzoa Cavalier-Smith, 1998

References

Primary references

Cavalier-Smith, T. 1998. A revised six-kingdom system of life. Biological Reviews 73(3): 203–266. DOI: 10.1017/s0006323198005167 PDF Free Reference page.

Additional references

Funch, P.; Sørensen, M.V.; Obst, M. 2005: On the phylogenetic position of Rotifera — have we come any further? Hydrobiologia, 546: 11–28. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-005-4093-6
García-Varela, M.; Nadler, S.A. 2006: Phylogenetic relationships among Syndermata inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 40: 61–72.
Herlyn, H., Piskurek, O., Schmitz, J., Ehlers, U. & Zischler, H. 2003. The syndermatan phylogeny and the evolution of acanthocephalan endoparasitism as inferred from 18S rDNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 26(1): 155–164. DOI: 10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00309-3 Reference page.
Struck, T.H., Wey-Fabrizius, A.R., Golombek, A., Hering, L., Weigert, A., Bleidorn, C., Klebow, S., Iakovenko, N. & Hausdorf, B. 2014. Platyzoan Paraphyly Based on Phylogenomic Data Supports a Noncoelomate Ancestry of Spiralia. Molecular Biology and Evolution 31(7): 1833–1849. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu143 . Reference page.
Witek, A.; Herlyn, H.; Meyer, A.; Boell, L.; Bucher, G.; Hankeln, T. 2008: EST based phylogenomics of Syndermata questions monophyly of Eurotatoria. BMC evolutionary biology, 8: 345. PDF
Witek, A.; Herlyn, H.; Ebersberger, I.; Welch, D.B.M.; Hankeln, T. 2009: Support for the monophyletic origin of Gnathifera from phylogenomics. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 53: 1037–1041. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.07.031 PDF
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.

Vernacular names

English: platyzoans
français: Platyzoaires
magyar: Laposféregszerűek
português: Platizoários
中文: 扁形动物超门