Nemertodermatida

Nemertodermatida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Xenacoelomorpha
Subphylum: Acoelomorpha
Class: Nemertodermatida
Karling, 1940
Subgroups

See text.

Nemertodermatida is a class of Acoelomorph worms,[1][2] comprising about ten species of millimetre-sized 'tubellariform', mostly interstitial worms.[3]

Taxonomy

Order Ascopariidae

Order Nemertodermatidae

Order Nemertinoides

Alternative views exist.[4]

References

Wikispecies has information related to: Nemertodermatida
  1. Paps J, Baguñà J, Riutort M (April 2009). "Lophotrochozoa internal phylogeny: new insights from an up-to-date analysis of nuclear ribosomal genes". Proc. Biol. Sci. 276 (1660): 1245–54. doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.1574. PMC 2660960Freely accessible. PMID 19129141.
  2. Jimenez-Guri E, Paps J, Garcia-Fernandez J, Salo E (2006). "Hox and ParaHox genes in Nemertodermatida, a basal bilaterian clade". Int. J. Dev. Biol. 50 (8): 675–9. doi:10.1387/ijdb.062167ej. PMID 17051477.
  3. Nielsen, Claus (2012). Animal Evolution: Interrelationships of the Living Taxa. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 69–70. ISBN 978-0-19-960602-3.
  4. Philippe, H. et al. 2011: Acoelomorph flatworms are deuterostomes related to Xenoturbella. Nature, 470: 255–258. doi:10.1038/nature09676


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