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Cycliophora
| Description | Symbion is the name of a genus of commensal aquatic animals, less than 0.5 mm wide, found living attached to the mouthparts of cold-water lobsters. They have sac-like bodies, and three distinctly different forms in different parts of their two-stage life-cycle. They appear so different from other animals that they were assigned their own, new phylum Cycliophora shortly after they were discovered in 1995. This was the first new phylum of multicelled organism to be discovered since the Loricifera in 1983. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycliophora, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rank | phylum | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Cycliophora | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Cycliophora | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opinions (PBDB) |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | J. Zrzavy, S. Mihulka, and P. Kepka, A. Bezdek, D. Tietz. 1998. Phylogeny of the Metazoa based on morphological and 18S ribosomal DNA evidence. Cladistics 14:249-285 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name(s) | Cycliophorans, Ringbärare, Wheel Wearers, 有輪動物, Ciclióforo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycliophora |
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Eucycliophora class | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1998 | Cycliophora Zrzavy et al. |
| 2011 | Cycliophora Edgecombe et al. p. 153 figs. Fig. 1 |
| 2012 | Cycliophora Nielsen p. 204 figs. Fig. 23.1 |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
