Acotylea

Acotylea
Stylochus pilidium (Goette, 1881)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Order: Polycladida
Suborder:
Lang, 1884
Synonyms
  • Acotylina Pearse, 1936

Acotylea is a suborder of free-living marine turbellarian flatworms in the order Polycladida.

Description

As currently defined, Acotylea includes polyclads with a Lang's vesicle in the female reproductive system and the male copulatory apparatus directed backwards. When tentacles are present, they are nuchal. The eyespot groups can be nuchal, cerebral, and marginal.[1]

Taxonomy

The internal classification of Acotylea has been unstable, with some genera and families constantly changing place as new molecular and morphological data are analyzed. The current classification is presented below:[2][3][4]

  • Superfamily Leptoplanoidea Faubel, 1984
    • Family Candimboididae Faubel, 1983
    • Family Euplanidae Marcus & Marcus, 1966
    • Family Faubelidae Ozdikmen, 2010
    • Family Gnesiocerotidae Marcus and Marcus, 1966
    • Family Leptoplanidae Stimpson, 1857
    • Family Mucroplanidae Faubel, 1983
    • Family Notocomplanidae Litvaitis, Bolaños & Quiroga, 2019
    • Family Notoplanidae Marcus and Marcus, 1966
    • Family Palauidae Faubel, 1983
    • Family Pleioplanidae Faubel, 1983
    • Family Pseudostylochidae Faubel, 1983
    • Family Stylochoplanidae Meixner, 1907

See also

References

  1. ^ Bahia, Juliana; Padula, Vinicius; Schrödl, Michael (2017). "Polycladida phylogeny and evolution: Integrating evidence from 28S rDNA and morphology". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 17 (3): 653–678. Bibcode:2017ODivE..17..653B. doi:10.1007/s13127-017-0327-5.
  2. ^ Dittmann, Isabel L.; Cuadrado, Daniel; Aguado, Maria Teresa; Noreña, Carolina; Egger, Bernhard (2019). "Polyclad phylogeny persists to be problematic". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 19 (4): 585–608. Bibcode:2019ODivE..19..585D. doi:10.1007/s13127-019-00415-1. hdl:10261/247677.
  3. ^ Oya, Yuki; Kajihara, Hiroshi (2020). "Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of Acotylea (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida)". Zoological Science. 37 (3): 271–279. doi:10.2108/zs190136. PMID 32549541.
  4. ^ Goodheart, Jessica A.; Collins, Allen G.; Cummings, Michael P.; Egger, Bernhard; Rawlinson, Kate A. (2023). "A phylogenomic approach to resolving interrelationships of polyclad flatworms, with implications for life-history evolution". Royal Society Open Science. 10 (3). Bibcode:2023RSOS...1020939G. doi:10.1098/rsos.220939. PMC 10049750.

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