Eumetazoans
Temporal range: Ediacaran - Present, 635–0 Ma
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Diversity o eumetazoans
Scientific classification e
Kinrick: Animalia
Subkinrick: Eumetazoa
Buetschli, 1910
Phyla
Synonyms
  • Enterozoa Lankester, 1877, em. Beklemishev[1][2]
  • Epitheliozoa Ax, 1996
  • Diploblast Lankester, 1873
  • Histozoa Ulrich, 1950[3][4]

Eumetazoa (Greek: εὖ [eu], well + μετά [metá], after + ζῷον [zóon], animal) is a clade comprisin aw major animal groups except sponges, placozoa, an several ither obscure or extinct life forms, such as Dickinsonia.

References

  1. Lankester, Ray (1877). Notes on the Embryology and classification of the Animal kingdom: comprising a revision of speculations relative to the origin and significance of the germ-layers. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science (N.S.), No. 68: 399–454.
  2. Beklemishev, V.L. The basis of the comparative anatomy of the invertebrates [Основы сравнительной анатомии беспозвоночных]. 1st ed., 1944; 2nd ed., 1950; 3rd ed. (2 vols.), 1964. English translation, 1969, [1]. Akademia Nauk, Moscow, Leningrad.
  3. Ax, Peter (6 December 2012). Multicellular Animals: A new Approach to the Phylogenetic Order in Nature (in Inglis). Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9783642801143.
  4. Ulrich, W. 1950. Begriff und Einteilung der Protozoen, in Moderne Biologie. Festschrijt 60. Geburt. Hans Nachtsheim, Peters, Berlin, 241-50.