Xenoturbella
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Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Xenoturbellida |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Xenoturbellidae
Genus: Xenoturbella
Species (6):
X. bocki –
X. churro –
X. hollandorum –
X. japonica –
X. monstrosa –
X. profunda
Name
[edit]- Xenoturbella Westblad, 1949
- Gender: [feminine]
- Original status: valid genus
- Type species: Xenoturbella bocki Westblad, 1949, by monotypy.
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Westblad, E. 1949. Xenoturbella bocki n. g., n. sp., a peculiar primitive turbellarian type. Arkiv för zoologi 3: 11–29.
Additional references
[edit]- Israelsson, O. 1999. New light on the enigmatic Xenoturbella (phylum uncertain): ontogeny and phylogeny. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (B) 266(1421): 835–845. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0713 JSTOR Reference page.
- Rouse, G.W., Wilson, N.G., Carvajal, J.I. & Vrijenhoek, R.C. 2016. New deep-sea species of Xenoturbella and the position of Xenacoelomorpha. Nature 530(7588): 94–97. DOI: 10.1038/nature16545 Reference page.