Cnidaria

Cnidaria
Temporal range: 580–0 Ma
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Ediacaran–Recent
Fower examples o cnidaria :
  • A loch-liver Chrysaora melanaster
  • A gorgonian Annella mollis
  • A rocky coral Acropora cervicornis
  • A sea anemone Nemanthus annamensis
Scientific classification e
Kinrick: Animalia
Clade: ParaHoxozoa
Phylum: Cnidaria
Hatschek, 1888
Teep species
Nematostella vectensis[4]
Subphyla[3] and classes
  • Class Anthozoa - inc. corals
  • Subphylum Medusozoa—loch-livers an hydrozoans:[1]
    • Class Cubozoa—loch-livers, sea wasps
    • Class Hydrozoa—hydroids, hydra-like animals
    • Class Polypodiozoa—parasites
    • Class Scyphozoa—true loch-livers
    • Class Staurozoa—stalked loch-livers
  • Class Myxozoa—parasites[2]

Cnidaria is a phylum containin mair nor 10,000[5] species o ainimals fand anely in aquatic an maistly marine environments, exceptin for hydras an some speices o loch-livers.

References

  1. ↑ Classes in Medusozoa based on "ITIS Report – Taxon: Subphylum Medusozoa". Universal Taxonomic Services. Retrieved 18 Mairch 2018.
  2. ↑ Collins, A.G. (Mey 2002). "Phylogeny of Medusozoa and the Evolution of Cnidarian Life Cycles" (PDF). Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 15 (3): 418–432. doi:10.1046/j.1420-9101.2002.00403.x. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 22 September 2006. Retrieved 27 November 2008. Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (help)
  3. ↑ Subphyla Anthozoa and Medusozoa based on "The Taxonomicon – Taxon: Phylum Cnidaria". Universal Taxonomic Services. Archived frae the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 10 Julie 2007. Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (help)
  4. ↑ Steele, Robert E.; Technau, Ulrich (15 Apryle 2011). "Evolutionary crossroads in developmental biology: Cnidaria". Development (in Inglis). 138 (8): 1447–1458. doi:10.1242/dev.048959. ISSN 0950-1991. PMID 21389047.
  5. ↑ Zhang, Z.-Q. (2011). "Animal biodiversity: An introduction to higher-level classification and taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3148: 7–12.