Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladi: Cycloneuralia – Panarthropoda
Overview of phyla: Arthropoda – Kinorhyncha (cladus) – Loricifera – Nematoda – Nematomorpha – Onychophora – Priapulida – Tardigrada

Name

Ecdysozoa Aguinaldo et al., 1997

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: 489–93. DOI: 10.1038/387489a0
• Garey, J.R. 2001. Ecdysozoa: the relationship between Cycloneuralia and Panarthropoda. Zoologischer Anzeiger 240: 321–330.
• 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: 943–954. DOI: 10.2108/zsj.23.943
• Petrov, N.B. & Vladychenskaya, N.S. 2005. Phylogeny of protostome moulting animals (Ecdysozoa) inferred from 18 and 28S rRNA gene sequences. Molecular biology (Moscow) 39(4): 503-513.
• 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. Online.
• 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

Vernacular names

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