Platyzoa

Pseudobiceros bedfordi

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
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 . Reference page. 
• García-Varela, M. & Nadler, S.A. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships among Syndermata inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 40(1): 61–72. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.02.010 . Reference page. 
• 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: article 345. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-345 . 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(3): 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