Xenacoelomorpha

Neochildia fusca (subphylum Acoelomorpha)

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Xenacoelomorpha

Subphyla (2): Acoelomorpha - Xenoturbellida

Name

Xenacoelomorpha Philippe, Brinkmann, Copley, Moroz, Nakano, Poustka, Wallberg, Peterson & Telford, 2011

References

Primary references

• 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. 
• Edgecombe, G.D. et al. 2011: Higher-level metazoan relationships: recent progress and remaining questions. Organisms diversity & evolution, 11(2): 151–172. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-011-0044-4
• 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. 

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