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Macrostomorpha 
Taxonomic Serial No.: 1204568

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Infraphylum  
  Synonym(s): Macrostomorpha Doe, 1986
  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2016   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumSpiralia   
             PhylumPlatyhelminthes Minot, 1876 – flatworms, plathelminthes, platodes, platelminte  
                SubphylumRhabditophora Ehlers, 1985  
                   InfraphylumMacrostomorpha   
    Direct Children:  
                      OrderDolichomicrostomida Janssen, Vizoso, Schulte, Littlewood, Waeschenbach and Schärer, 2015  
                      OrderHaplopharyngida Karling, 1974  
                      OrderMacrostomida Karling, 1940  
       
                    InfraphylumMacrostomorpha  incertae sedis  
    Children with Uncertain Position:  
                      GenusBradynectes Rieger, 1971  
                      GenusMyozona Marcus, 1949  
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Brusca, Richard C., Wendy Moore, and Stephen M. Shuster   
  Publication Date: 2016   
  Article/Chapter Title: Chapter 10: Plylum Platyhelminthes: The Flatworms   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Invertebrates, Third Edition   
  Page(s): 373-411   
  Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Inc.   
  Publication Place: Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 978-1605353753   
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  Reference for: Macrostomorpha   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Although Ruggiero et al. (2015) used Macrostomorpha at the rank of class, it was considered a subphylum of Rhabditophora by Brusca et al. (2016:376)  
 

 

    


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