Xenoturbella

Xenoturbella japonica

Navigazione

Navigazione: Xenoturbellida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Phylum: Xenacoelomorpha Subphylum: Xenoturbellida

Familia: Xenoturbellidae
Genus: Xenoturbella
Species (6): X. bocki – X. churro – X. hollandorum – X. japonica – X. monstrosa – X. profunda

Nome

• Xenoturbella Westblad, 1949
  • Gender: [feminine]
  • Original status: valid genus
  • Specie tipo: Xenoturbella bocki Westblad, 1949, by monotypy.

Riferimenti

Primary references

• Westblad, E. 1949. Xenoturbella bocki n. g., n. sp., a peculiar primitive turbellarian type. Arkiv för zoologi 3: 11–29.

Additional references

• 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. 

Collegamenti

• Xenoturbella in the World Register of Marine Species