Ecdysozoa

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Podiata
Cladus: Amorphea
Cladus: Obazoa
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Cladus: Filozoa
Cladus: Choanozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Superphylum: Ecdysozoa
Cladi (Ahlrichs, 1995): Cycloneuralia – Panarthropoda
Cladi (Howard et al., 2022): Cryptovermes – Scalidophora
Overview of extant phyla (8): Arthropoda – Kinorhyncha – Loricifera – Nematoda – Nematomorpha – Onychophora – Priapulida – Tardigrada

Name

Ecdysozoa Aguinaldo et al., 1997

References

Primary references

Aguinaldo, A.M., Turbeville, J.M., Linford, L.S., Rivera, M.C., Garey, J.R., Raff, R.A. & Lake, J.A. 1997. Evidence for a clade of nematodes, arthropods and other moulting animals. Nature 387: 489–493. DOI: 10.1038/387489a0 . Reference page.

Additional references

Garey, J.R. 2001. Ecdysozoa: the relationship between Cycloneuralia and Panarthropoda. Zoologischer Anzeiger 240(3–4): 321–330. DOI: 10.1078/0044-5231-00039 Reference page.
Giribet, G. & Edgecombe, G.D. 2017. Current Understanding of Ecdysozoa and its Internal Phylogenetic Relationships. Integrative and Comparative Biology 57(3): 455–466. DOI: 10.1093/icb/icx072 . Reference page.
Howard, R.J., Giacomelli, M., Lozano-Fernandez, J., Edgecombe, G.D., Fleming, J.F., Kristensen, R.M., Ma, X., Olesen, J., Sørensen, M.V., Thomsen, P.F., Will, M.A., Donoghue, P.C.J. & Pisani, D. 2022. The Ediacaran origin of Ecdysozoa: Integrating fossil and phylogenomic data. Journal of the Geological Society 179(4): jgs2021-107. DOI: doi:10.1144/jgs2021-107, hdl: 2445/186596 . Reference page.
Park, J.-K., Rho, H.S., Kristensen, R.M., Kim, W. & Giribet, G. 2006. First Molecular Data on the Phylum Loricifera – An Investigation into the Phylogeny of Ecdysozoa with Emphasis on the Positions of Loricifera and Priapulida. Zoological Science 23(11): 943–954. DOI: 10.2108/zsj.23.943 . Reference page.
Petrov, N.B. & Vladychenskaya, N.S. 2005. Phylogeny of Molting Protostomes (Ecdysozoa) as Inferred from 18S and 28S rRNA Gene Sequences. Molecular biology (Moscow) 39(4): 503-513. DOI: 10.1007/s11008-005-0067-z .
Podsiadlowski, L., Braband, A. & Mayer, G. 2008. The complete mitochondrial genome of the onychophoran Epiperipatus biolleyi reveals a unique transfer RNA set and provides further support for the Ecdysozoa hypothesis. Molecular Biology and Evolution 25(1): 42–51. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm223.
Sørensen, M.V., Hebsgaard, M.B., Heiner, I., Glenner, H., Willerslev, E. & Kristensen, R.M. 2008. New data from an enigmatic phylum: evidence from molecular sequence data supports a sister-group relationship between Loricifera and Nematomorpha. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 46: 231–239. DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2008.00478.x . Reference page.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Häutungstiere
français: Ecdysozoaires
magyar: Vedlő állatok
日本語: 脱皮動物 (だっぴどうぶつ)
한국어: 탈피동물
polski: Wylinkowce
português: Ecdisozoários
中文: 蛻皮動物