Syndermata
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| Syndermata | |
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| Rotifer | |
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| Acanthocephalan | |
Scientific classification  (disputed) | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | Gnathifera |
| Clade: | Syndermata Zrzavý, 1998 |
| Phyla | |
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Syndermata is a clade of animals that, in some systems, is considered synonymous with
Rotifera and Acanthocephala as different phyla, and group them both under Syndermata.[1][2][3] This clade is placed in the Platyzoa
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Phylogeny
Seisonidea, producing the names and relationships shown in the cladogram below.[citation needed
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A study of the gene order in the mitochondria suggests that Seisonidea and Acanthocephala are sister clades and that the Bdelloidea are the sister clade to this group.[4]
References
- ISBN 978-0-03-025982-1, p. 788ff. – see particularly p. 804
- PMID 37350678.
- ^ "Syndermata". comenius.susqu.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
- PMID 26702959.
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