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ERMS taxon details

Acotylea

AphiaID

479182 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:479182)

Classification

Authority

Lang, 1884

Status

accepted

Rank

Suborder

Parent

Polycladida

Direct children (6)

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Superfamily Discoceloidea Dittmann, Cuadrado, Aguado, Noreña & Egger, 2019
Family Enantiidae Graff, 1889
Superfamily Leptoplanoidea Faubel, 1984
Superfamily Stylochoidea Poche, 1926
Superfamily Cryptoceloidea Bahia, Padula & Schrödl, 2017 accepted as Discoceloidea Dittmann, Cuadrado, Aguado, Noreña & Egger, 2019 (Junior synonym)
Superfamily Ilyplanoidea Faubel, 1984 accepted as Cryptoceloidea Bahia, Padula & Schrödl, 2017 accepted as Discoceloidea Dittmann, Cuadrado, Aguado, Noreña & Egger, 2019 (Is paraphyletic and type genus contained within Cryptoceloidea by 28S rDNA cladogram)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Tyler, S., Artois, T.; Schilling, S.; Hooge, M.; Bush, L.F. (eds) (2006-2025). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora. Acotylea. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org//www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=479182 on 2025-11-07

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Acotylea. Accessed at: http://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=479182 on 2025-11-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-06-15 07:03:37Z

created

Tyler, Seth

2019-06-27 13:01:39Z

changed

Tyler, Seth

Licensing

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status source Litvaitis, M. K.; Bolaños, D. M.; Quiroga, S. Y. (2019). Systematic congruence in Polycladida (Platyhelminthes, Rhabditophora): are DNA and morphology telling the same story?. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 186: 865–891., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz007
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Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acotylea)
To Genbank