Cyclorhagida

Cyclorhagida
Echinoderes hwiizaa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Kinorhyncha
Class:	Cyclorhagida Zelinka, 1896 [1] [2]
Orders and families
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Cyclorhagida is a class of kinorhynchs, small marine invertebrates that are widespread in mud or sand at all depths as part of the meiobenthos, commonly known as mud dragons.

Orders and families

• Order Echinorhagata Sørensen et al., 2015
  • Echinoderidae Zelinka, 1894 ^[3]
• Order Kentrorhagata Sørensen et al., 2015
  • Antygomonidae Adrianov & Malakhov, 1994 ^[4]
  • Cateriidae Gerlach, 1956 ^[5]
  • Centroderidae Zelinka, 1896 ^[1]
  • Semnoderidae Remane, 1929 ^[6]
  • Zelinkaderidae Higgins, 1990 ^[7]
• Order Xenosomata Zelinka, 1907
  • • Campyloderidae Remane, 1929
• Family incertae sedis
  • Tubulideres Sørensen, Heiner, Ziemer & Neuhaus, 2007 ^[8]
  • Wollunquaderes Sørensen & Thormar, 2010 ^[9]

References

1. Zelinka, C. (1896). In Demonstrationen. Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft auf der sechsten Jahresversammlung, 6, 197–199.
2. Chitwood, B. G. (1951). Echinoderella steineri new species (Scolecida, Echinodera). Texas Journal of Science, 3(1), 113–114.
3. Zelinka, C. (1894). Über die Organisation von Echinoderes. Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, 4, 46–49.
4. Adrianov, A. V. & Malakhov, V. V. (1994). Kinorhyncha: structure, development, phylogeny and taxonomy. Moscow: Nauka.
5. Gerlach, S. (1956). Über einen aberranten Vertreter der Kinorhynchen aus dem Küstengrundwasser. Kieler Meeresforschungen, 12, 120–124.
6. Remane, A. (1929). In Grimpe, J. & Wagler, E. (Eds.), Die Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostee (pp. 1–156). Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft.
7. Higgins, R. P. (1990). Zelinkaderidae, a new family of cyclorhagid Kinorhyncha. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 500, 1–26.
8. Sørensen, M., Heiner, I., Ziemer, O. & Neuhaus, B. (2007). Tubulideres seminoli gen. et sp. nov. and Zelinkaderes brightae sp. nov. (Kinorhyncha, Cyclorhagida) from Florida. Helgoland Marine Research, 61(4), 247–265.
9. Sørensen, M. & Thormar, J. (2010). Wollunquaderes majkenae gen. et sp. nov. – A new cyclorhagid kinorhynch genus and species from the Coral Sea, Australia. Marine Biodiversity, 40, 261–275.

External links

• Media related to Cyclorhagida at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Cyclorhagida at Wikispecies