Actinoposthia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Xenacoelomorpha |
Order: | Acoela |
Family: | Actinoposthiidae |
Genus: | Actinoposthia An der Lan, 1936 |
Actinoposthia is a genus of acoels belonging to the family Actinoposthiidae. [1]
Acoela, or the acoels, is an order of small and simple invertebrates in the subphylum Acoelomorpha of phylum Xenacoelomorpha, a deep branching bilaterian group of animals, which resemble flatworms. Historically they were treated as an order of turbellarian flatworms.
Cryptocelidae is a family of flatworms.
Nemertodermatida is a class of Acoelomorpha, comprising 18 species of millimetre-sized turbellariform, mostly interstitial worms.
Actinoposthiidae is a family of acoels.
Antroposthiidae is a family of acoels, containing three genera and four species:
Mecynostomidae is a family of acoels.
Proporidae is a family of acoels.
Isodiametridae is a family of acoels.
Euryleptidae is a family of marine polyclad flatworms.
Convoluta convoluta, also known as the acoellous turbellarian flatworm, is a small acoel in the family Convolutidae. Native to the Baltic Sea, it invaded the Gulf of Maine in the late 1990s.
Enantiidae is a family of flatworm belonging to the order Polycladida.
Haploposthia is a genus of worms belonging to the family Proporidae.
Afronta is a genus of acoels belonging to the family Haploposthiidae.
Alluna is a genus of acoels belonging to the family Isodiametridae.
Antroposthia is a genus of worms belonging to the family Antroposthiidae.
Eumecynostomum is a genus of worms belonging to the family Mecynostomidae.
Didangia is a genus of flatworms belonging to the order Polycladida. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Didangiidae.
Ilyplanidae is a family of flatworms belonging to the order Polycladida.
Tetraposthia is a monotypic genus of worms belonging to the family Actinoposthiidae. The only species is Tetraposthia colymbetes.
Sterreria is a genus of worms belonging to the family Nemertodermatidae.