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Loricifera (from Latin, lorica,
corselet (armour) + ferre, to bear) is a
phylum of very
small to
microscopic marine cycloneuralian sediment-dwelling animals...
- phyla: Arthropoda, Onychophora, Tardigrada, Kinorhyncha, Priapulida,
Loricifera, Nematoda, and Nematomorpha. A few
other groups, such as the gastrotrichs...
- Fujimoto, Shinta; Miyazaki,
Katsumi (June 2015). "Phylogenetic
position of
Loricifera inferred from
nearly complete 18S and 28S rRNA gene sequences". Zoological...
- parasites.
Smaller phyla related to them are the Kinorhyncha, Priapulida, and
Loricifera.
These groups have a
reduced coelom,
called a pseudocoelom.
Other invertebrates...
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Enteropneusta (acorn worms)
Pterobranchia Allomalorhagida Cyclorhagida Loricifera Aplacophora Bivalvia (clams, mussels, scallops, and kin)
Cephalopoda (octopuses...
- Fujimoto, Shinta; Miyazaki,
Katsumi (June 2015). "Phylogenetic
position of
Loricifera inferred from
nearly complete 18S and 28S rRNA gene sequences". Zoological...
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Nematomorpha or
horsehair worms, and the Kinorhyncha, Priapulida, and
Loricifera.
These groups have a
reduced coelom,
called a pseudocoelom. The Spiralia...
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include three species of
Loricifera (< 1 mm in size) and the 10-cell
Henneguya zschokkei. In 2010
three species of
anaerobic loricifera were
discovered in the...
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Nematoida (nematodes and
close relatives)
Scalidophora (priapulids and Kinorhyncha, and
Loricifera) Panarthropoda...
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grounds to
unite three phyla: the Kinorhyncha, the
Priapulida and the
Loricifera. The
three phyla have four
characters in
common —
chitinous cuticle that...
