Meristoderes

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Meristoderes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Kinorhyncha
Class:Incertae sedis
Order: Cyclorhagida
Family: Echinoderidae
Genus:Meristoderes
Herranz, Thormar, Benito, Sánchez & Pardos, 2012 [1]

Meristoderes is a genus of kinorhynchs in the family Echinoderidae.

A genus is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus.

Kinorhyncha phylum of small marine pseudocoelomate invertebrates

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Species

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Herranz, M., Thormar, J., Benito, J., Sánchez, N. & Pardos, F. (2012). Meristoderes gen. nov., a new kinorhybch genus, with the description of two new species and their implications for echinoderid phylogeny (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida, Echinoderidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 251(3), 161–179.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Sørensen, M., Rho, H., Min, W., Kim, D. & Chang, C. (2013). Occurrence of the newly described kinorhynch genus Meristoderes (Cyclorhagida: Echinoderidae) in Korea, with the description of four new species. Helgoland Marine Research, 67(2), 291–319.