HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE PHYLUM CYCLIOPHORA (FUNCH AND KRISTENSEN 1995)
| EUKARYA> UNIKONTA> OPISTHOKONTA> ANIMALIA> BILATERIA> PROTOSTOMATA> SPIRALIA> TROCHOZOA> POLYZOA> CYCLIOPHORA |
CYCLIOPHORA LINKS
| Taxonomy of the phylum cannot be defined with only two known species. We have assigned the name Cycliophorida for its apparent class. |
CLASS CYCLIOPHORIDA
- Symbion.
| LITERATURE CITED Brusca, R. C. and G. J. Brusca. 2003. Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates, Inc. Sunderland, Mass. Funch, P. and R.M. Kristensen. 1995: Cycliophora is a new phylum with affinities to Endoprocta and Ectoprocta. Nature. 378: 711-714. [L] Margulis, L. and K. Schwartz. 1998. Five kingdoms, an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on earth. 3rd Edition. W. H. Freeman and Company. New York. Meglitsch, P. A. and F. R. Schramm. 1991. Invertebrate Zoology. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford. Nielsen, C. 2001. Animal Evolution: Interrelationships of the Living Phyla. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press. Oxford. Obst M., P. Funch, and R. M. Kristensen. 2006. A new species of Cycliophora from the mouthparts of the American lobster Homarus americanus (Nephropidae, Decapoda). Organisms, Diversity & Evolution. 6:83-97. Obst, M., P. Funch and G. Giribet. 2005. Hidden diversity and host specificity in cycliophorans: a phylogeographic analysis along the North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. Molecular Ecology. 14: 4427-4440. Ruppert, E. E., R. S. Fox, and R. D. Barnes. 2004. Invertebrate Zoology: A Functional Evolutionary Approach. Seventh Edition. Thomson, Brooks/Cole. New York. pp. 1-963. Tudge, C. 2000. The Variety of Life, A Survey and a Celebration of all the Creatures That Have Ever Lived. Oxford University Press. New York. Valentine, J. W. 2004. The Origin of Phyla. University of Chicago Press. Chicago. 614 pp. Winnepenninckx, B., T. Backeljau, and R. M. Kristensen. 1998. Relations of the new Phylum Cycliophora. Nature. 393:636-638. |
| By Jack R. Holt and Carlos A. Iudica. Last revised: 01/29/2012 |
