This article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject.(September 2017) |
| Trochozoa Temporal range: | |
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| Eunereis longissima Johnston, 1840 | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Subkingdom: | Eumetazoa |
| Clade: | ParaHoxozoa |
| Clade: | Bilateria |
| Clade: | Nephrozoa |
| Clade: | Protostomia |
| Clade: | Spiralia |
| Superphylum: | Lophotrochozoa |
| (unranked): | Trochozoa |
| Phyla | |
The Trochozoa are a proposed Lophotrochozoa clade that is a sister clade of Bryozoa and Platyzoa. The clade would include animals in five phyla: the Nemertea, the Annelida, the Mollusca, and the two Brachiozoan phyla, Brachiopoda and Phoronida. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] Both annelids [8] and molluscs [9] have been suggested as the sister group of Brachiozoa. It has also been proposed that nemerteans are actually a clade of annelids. [10]