Animalia

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Animalia

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Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregna: Eumetazoa - Parazoa - incertae sedis

Overview of Recent phyla

Acanthocephala - Acoela - Annelida - Arthropoda - Brachiopoda - Bryozoa - Chaetognatha - Chordata - Cnidaria - Ctenophora - Cycliophora - Dicyemida - Echinodermata - Echiura - Entoprocta - Gastrotricha - Gnathostomulida - Hemichordata - Kinorhyncha - Loricifera - Micrognathozoa - Mollusca - Monoblastozoa - Myxozoa - Myzostomida - Nematoda - Nematomorpha - Nemertea - Nemertodermatida - Onychophora - Orthonectida - Phoronida - Placozoa - Platyhelminthes - Porifera - Priapulida - Rotifera - Sipuncula - Tardigrada - Xenoturbellida

Name

Animalia

Synonyms

• Metazoa

References

• Bourlat, S.J.; Nielsen, C.; Economou, A.D.; Telford, M.J. 2008: Testing the new animal phylogeny: a phylum level molecular analysis of the animal kingdom. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 49: 23-31.
• Carlos, C.J.; Voisin, J.-f. 2009: A few remarks on the proposed amendment of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature to expand and refine methods of publication. Zootaxa, 2198: 67-68. Abstract & excerpt
• DeSalle, R.; Schierwater, B. 2008: An even "newer" animal phylogeny. BioEssays, 30: 1043-1047.
• Dubois, A. 2007: Nomina zoologica linnaeana. Pp. 81-106 in: Zhang, Z.-Q. & Shear, W.A. (eds.) Linnaeus tercentenary: progress in invertebrate taxonomy. Zootaxa, 1668: 1–766. Abstract & excerpt
• Dubois, A. 2009: Incorporation of nomina of higher-ranked taxa into the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature: the nomenclatural status of class-series zoological nomina published in a non-latinized form. Zootaxa, 2106: 1-12. Abstract & excerpt
• Gordon, D.P. (ed.) 2009: New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia. Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand.
• Glenner, H.; Hansen, A.J.; Sørensen, M.V.; Ronquist, F.; Huelsenbeck, J.P.; Willerslev, E. 2004: Bayesian inference of the metazoan phylogeny: a combined molecular and morphological approach. Current biology, 14: 1644-1649.
• Halanych, K.M. 2004: The new view of animal phylogeny. Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics, 35: 229-256. [1]
• Jenner, R.A. 2004: Towards a phylogeny of the Metazoa: evaluating alternative phylogenetic positions of Platyhelminthes, Nemertea, and Gnathostomulida, with a critical reappraisal of cladistic characters. Contributions to zoology, 73(1-2): 3-163.
• Nielsen, C. 2001: Animal evolution: interrelationships of the living phyla (2nd edition). Oxford University Press, New York.
• Schierwater, B.; DeSalle, R. 2007: Can we ever identify the Urmetazoan? Integrative and comparative biology, 47(5): 670-676. [2]
• Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. 2003: Old trees, new trees: is there any progress? Zoology (Jena), 106(4): 291-301.
• Sorensen, M.V.; Funch, P.; Willerslev, E.; Hansen, A.J.; Olesen J. 2000: On the phylogeny of the metazoa in the light of Cycliophora and Micrognathozoa. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 239: 297-318.
• Syed, T.; Gudo, M.; Gutmann, M. 2007: The new animal phylogeny - dilemma or progress? Denisia, (20): 295-312.

Vernacular names

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