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Benthozoa | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Clade: | Benthozoa A. Erives and B. Fritzsch, 2019 |
Clades | |
Porifera | |
Synonyms | |
Myriazoa |
The Benthozoa or Myriazoa are a proposed basal animal clade consisting of the Porifera and ParaHoxozoa as a sister group of Ctenophora.
An alternative phylogeny is given by the Porifera-sister hypothesis in which Porifera are the first diverging animal group.
Choanozoa |
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950 mya |
References
- 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.
- 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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