WoRMS taxon details
Xenoturbellida
368158 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:368158)
Bourlat, Juliusdottir, Lowe, Freeman, Aronowicz et al., 2006
accepted
Infraphylum
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Bourlat S.J., Juliusdottir T., Lowe C.J., Freeman R., Aronowicz J., Kirschner M., Lander E.S., Thorndyke M., Nakano H., Kohn A.B., Heyland A., Moroz L.L., Copley R.R. & Telford M.J., 2006. Deuterostome phylogeny reveals monophyletic chordates and the new phylum Xenoturbellida. Nature 444: 85-88, available online at http://comparativephys.ca/heylandlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2006/08/Bourlat-et-al.-2006.pdf [details]
WoRMS (2025). Xenoturbellida. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=368158 on 2025-04-30
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Nomenclature
original description
Bourlat S.J., Juliusdottir T., Lowe C.J., Freeman R., Aronowicz J., Kirschner M., Lander E.S., Thorndyke M., Nakano H., Kohn A.B., Heyland A., Moroz L.L., Copley R.R. & Telford M.J., 2006. Deuterostome phylogeny reveals monophyletic chordates and the new phylum Xenoturbellida. Nature 444: 85-88, available online at http://comparativephys.ca/heylandlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2006/08/Bourlat-et-al.-2006.pdf [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Redmond, A. K. (2024). Acoelomorph flatworm monophyly is a long-branch attraction artefact obscuring a clade of Acoela and Xenoturbellida. <em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.</em> 291(2031)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.0329 [details]
