Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Platyzoa
Phyla: Acanthocephala - Cycliophora - Gastrotricha - Gnathostomulida - Micrognathozoa - Myzostomida - Platyhelminthes - Rotifera

NOTES:

• Prosomastigozoa: Cycliophora - Myzostomida - Syndermata (?Gnathifera)
• Gnathifera: Gnathostomulida - Micrognathozoa - Syndermata
• Syndermata: Acanthocephala - Rotifera

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
• García-Varela, M.; Nadler, S.A. 2006: Phylogenetic relationships among Syndermata inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 40: 61–72.
• 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. 
• 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: 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: 1037–1041. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.07.031 PDF

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