Benthozoa

Benthozoa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Clade: Benthozoa
A. Erives and B. Fritzsch, 2019
Clades

Porifera
Eumetazoa (sans Ctenophora)

Synonyms

Myriazoa

The Benthozoa or Myriazoa[1] are a proposed basal animal clade consisting of the Porifera and ParaHoxozoa as a sister group of Ctenophora.[2]

An alternative phylogeny is given by the Porifera-sister hypothesis in which Porifera are the first diverging animal group.

Choanozoa
950 mya

References

  1. ^ Schultz, Darrin T.; Haddock, Steven H.D.; Bredeson, Jessen V.; Green, Richard E.; Simakov, Oleg; Rokhsar, Daniel S. (17 May 2023). "Ancient gene linkages support ctenophores as sister to other animals". Nature. doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05936-6. ISSN 0028-0836. PMC 10232365.
  2. ^ Erives, Albert; Fritzsch, Bernd (17 July 2019). "A screen for gene paralogies delineating evolutionary branching order of early Metazoa". bioRxiv 10.1101/704551.


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