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Placozoa 
AphiaID: 22737

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Phylum
Parent Animalia
Sources  basis of record: Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Ender, A., Schierwater B., 2003. Placozoa are not derived Cnidarians: Evidence from molecular morphology. Mol. Biol. Evol. 20 1: 130-134. [details]

additional source: Voigt, O., Collins A.G., Pearse V.B., Pearse J.S., Ender A., Hadrys H., Schierwater B., 2004. Placozoa - no longer a phylum of one. Current Biology 14 22: R944-R945. [details]

additional source: Schierwater, B., de Jong, D., DeSalle, R. (2009) Placozoa and the evolution of Metazoa and intrasomatic cell differentiation. International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology 41: 370-379 [details]

additional source: Grell, K.G., Ruthmann, A. (1991) Placozoa. In: Harrison FW, Westfall, J.A., editor. Microscopic Anatomy of Invertebrates, Placozoa, Porifera, Cnidaria, and Ctenophora. New York: Wiley-Liss. pp. 13-28 [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English placozoans  [details]
Direct child
taxa
 Genus Trichoplax Schultze, 1883

Genus Treptoplax Monticelli, 1893 (unaccepted)
Family Trichoplacidae (unaccepted)
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:22737
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2007-01-10 09:56:49Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2009-07-01 13:17:44Z  checked  Schierwater, Bernd
  
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  Citation: Schierwater, B. (2013). Placozoa. In: Schierwater, B.; Eitel, M.; DeSalle, R. (2013) World Placozoa Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22737 on 2013-05-24
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