Xenacoelomorpha

Neochildia fusca (subphylum Acoelomorpha)

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
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. 

Additional references

• Edgecombe, G.D., Giribet, G., Dunn, C.W., Hejnot, A., Kristensen, R.M., Neves, R.C., Rouse, G.W., Worsaae, K. & Sørensen, M.V. 2011. Higher-level metazoan relationships: recent progress and remaining questions. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 11(2): 151–172. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-011-0044-4 . 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. 

Xenacoelomorpha sister to Nephrozoa (all remaining Bilateria)

• 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. 

Xenacoelomorpha sister to Ambulacraria (Echinodermata + Hemichordata)

• Kapli, P. & Telford, M.J. 2020. Topology-dependent asymmetry in systematic errors affects phylogenetic placement of Ctenophora and Xenacoelomorpha. Science Advances 6(50): eabc5162. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc5162 . Reference page. 
• Philippe, H., Poustka, A.J., Chiodin, M., Hoff, K.J., Dessimoz, C., Tomiczek, B., Schiffer, P.H., Müller, S., Domman, D., Horn, M., Kuhl, H., Timmermann, B., Satoh, N., Hikosaka-Katayama, T., Nakano, H., Rowe, M.L., Elphick, M.R., Thomas-Chollier, M., Hankeln, T., Mertes, F., Wallberg, A., Rast, J.P., Copley, R.R., Martinez, P., Telford, M.J. 2019. Mitigating Anticipated Effects of Systematic Errors Supports Sister-Group Relationship between Xenacoelomorpha and Ambulacraria. Current Biology 29(11): 1818–1826. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.009 . Reference page. 

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