WoRMS taxon details
Aculifera
AphiaID: 18824
AphiaID: 18824
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) |
| Authority | Hatscheck, 1891 | |||||||||||||
| Status | alternate representation (presumably paraphyletic taxon) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Subphylum | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Mollusca | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Blumrich J. (1891). Das Integument der Chitonen. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 52, 404– 476 , plates 23–30 [foreword by B. Hatscheck]. [details] basis of record: Scheltema, Amélie H. 1993. Aplacophora as progenetic aculiferans and the coelomate origin of mollusks as the sister taxon of Sipuncula. Biological Bulletin, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole 184(1): 57-78., available online at http://www.biolbull.org/cgi/reprint/184/1/57.pdf [details] basis of record: Stasek C., 1972. The molluscan framework. In: Florkin, M., Scheer, B.T. (Eds.), Chemical Zoology, vol. 7, pp. 1–44. [details] additional source: Glaubrecht, G., Maitas, L. & Salvini-Plawen L.v. (2005) Aplacophoran Mollusca in the Natural History Museum Berlin. An annotated catalogue of Thiele's type specimens, with a brief review of "Aplacophora". Mitteilungen aus der Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin – Zoologische Reihe 81, 145-166., available online at http://download.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/matthias.glaubrecht/Glaubrecht%20et%20al%202005.pdf [details] additional source: Steiner G. & Dreyer, H. 2003- Molecular phylogeny of Scaphopoda (Mollusca) inferred from 18S rDNA sequences: support for a Scaphopoda-Cephalopoda clade. Zoologica Scripta 32: 343-356. [details] additional source: Runnegar B. & Pojeta, J. 1974 Molluscan phylogeny: the paleontological viewpoint. Science 186 (4161): pp.311-317 [details] additional source: An outline for the classification of Phylum Mollusca in taxonomic databases [report elaborated by WoRMS editors for internal use, june 2010] [details] [full text] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa | Class Aplacophora (alternate representation, presumably paraphyletic taxon) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Classification: Aculifera is a group, with rank of subphylum, including the Aplacophora (Caudofoveata and Solenogastres) and Polyplacophora (chitons), all other molluscs being included in subphylum Conchifera (shell-bearers)(Hatscheck in Blumrich, 1891; Scheltema, 1993) or alternately including only the Aplacophora, aside with the subphyla Placophora and Conchifera (Stasek, 1972). The data at hand (see Haszprunar 2000: American Malacological Bulletin 15, 115-130, and Glaubrecht, Maitas & Salvini-Plawen, 2005: Mitteilungen aus der Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin – Zoologische Reihe 81, 145-166) would support a phylogenetic relationship like (Solenogastres(Caudofoveata(Polyplacophora(Conchifera)))) making Aplacophora (and therefore Aculifera) paraphyletic. Because groupings of molluscan classes into clades is highly controversial (for a review of competing hypothesis see Steiner & Dreyer (2003) Molecular phylogeny of Scaphopoda (Mollusca) inferred from 18S rDNA sequences: support for a Scaphopoda–Cephalopoda clade. — Zoologica Scripta, 32, 343–356), classes will be treated herein as an unresolved polytomy within Phylum Mollusca. [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:18824 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Aculifera. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=18824 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||
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