Polyzoa

Polyzoa
Barentsia ramosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Clade: Bilateria
Clade: Nephrozoa
Clade: Protostomia
Clade: Spiralia
Superphylum: Lophotrochozoa
Clade: Polyzoa
Hejnol et al., 2009
Phyla

Polyzoa is a proposed Lophotrochozoa clade that is the sister clade to Trochozoa. The clade consist of the three phyla Bryozoa, Entoprocta and Cycliophora.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ^ Khalturin, Konstantin; Shunatova, Natalia; Shchenkov, Sergei; Sasakura, Yasunori; Kawamitsu, Mayumi; Satoh, Noriyuki (July 2022). "Polyzoa is back: The effect of complete gene sets on the placement of Ectoprocta and Entoprocta". Science Advances. 8 (26) eabo4400. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abo4400.
  2. ^ Hejnol, Andreas; Obst, Matthias; Stamatakis, Alexandros; Ott, Michael; Rouse, Greg W.; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Martinez, Pedro; Baguñà, Jaume; Bailly, Xavier; Jondelius, Ulf; Wiens, Matthias; Müller, Werner E. G.; Seaver, Elaine; Wheeler, Ward C.; Martindale, Mark Q.; Giribet, Gonzalo; Dunn, Casey W. (22 December 2009). "Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 276 (1677): 4261–4270. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0896. ISSN 0962-8452.
  3. ^ Kocot, Kevin M.; Struck, Torsten H.; Merkel, Julia; Waits, Damien S.; Todt, Christiane; Brannock, Pamela M.; Weese, David A.; Cannon, Johanna T.; Moroz, Leonid L.; Lieb, Bernhard; Halanych, Kenneth M. (23 September 2016). "Phylogenomics of Lophotrochozoa with Consideration of Systematic Error". Systematic Biology syw079. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syw079. ISSN 1063-5157.