- "shedding" + ζῷον (zôion) "animal". The most
notable characteristic shared by
ecdysozoans is a three-layered
cuticle (four in Tardigrada)
composed of
organic material...
- Tardigrada, are
close relatives of the
arthropods and
share these traits. The
ecdysozoans also
include the
Nematoda or roundworms,
perhaps the
second largest animal...
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Beretella is a
genus of
extinct ecdysozoan in the
phylum Saccorhytida. It is the
second genus of its
phylum to be described,
after the
early Cambrian Saccorhytus...
- Jean-Bernard (2015). "Hallucigenia's head and the
pharyngeal armature of
early ecdysozoans" (PDF). Nature. 523 (7558): 75–78. Bibcode:2015Natur.523...75S. doi:10...
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Saccorhytida is an
extinct phylum of
Cambrian ecdysozoan. It
contains two
monotypic genera: its
namesake Saccorhytus, and Beretella. Both
genera are found...
- has
since been
determined to
belong to a
protostome group called the
ecdysozoans.
Fossils of the
species were
first discovered in the
Kuanchuanpu Formation...
-
fossils is
published by
Daley et al. (2018). A
study on the
evolution of
ecdysozoan vision,
focusing on the
evolution of
arthropod multi-opsin vision, as...
-
remains of an
exoskeleton and
related structures that are left
after ecdysozoans (including insects,
crustaceans and arachnids) have moulted. The exuviae...
- S2CID 85821717. McMenamin, M.A.S (2003), "Spriggina is a
trilobitoid ecdysozoan" (abstract),
Abstracts with Programs, 35 (6): 105,
archived from the original...
- Rota-Stabelli, Omar; Kayal, Ehsan; Gleeson, Dianne; et al. (2010). "
Ecdysozoan Mitogenomics:
Evidence for a
Common Origin of the
Legged Invertebrates...