suborder
Order ( la, ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and ...
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gastrotrich
The gastrotrichs ( phylum Gastrotricha), commonly referred to as hairybellies or hairybacks, are a group of microscopic (0.06-3.0 mm), worm-like, acoelomate animals, and are widely distributed and abundant in freshwater and marine environme ...
Chaetonotida
The Chaetonotida is an order of gastrotrichs. They generally have a tenpin or bottle-like shape.
Chaetonotids inhabit both freshwater and marine environments. They can be distinguished from other gastrotrichs by the absence of pores in the phar ...
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Families
* Chaetonotidae Gosse, 1864 sensu Leasi & Todaro, 2008Gosse, P. H. (1864). The natural history of the hairy-backed animalcules (Chætonotidæ). ''The Intellectual Observer'', 5, 387–406.Leasi, F. & Todaro, M. (2008). The muscular system of ''Musellifer delamarei'' (Renaud-Mornant, 1968) and other chaetonotidans with implications for the phylogeny and systematization of the Paucitubulatina (Gastrotricha). ''Biological Journal of the Linnean Society'', 94, 379–398.
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Dasydytidae
Dasydytidae is a family of gastrotrichs in the order Chaetonotida
The Chaetonotida is an order of gastrotrichs. They generally have a tenpin or bottle-like shape.
Chaetonotids inhabit both freshwater and marine environments. They can be dis ...
von Daday, 1905von Daday, E. (1905). Untersuchungen über die Süsswasser-Mikrofauna Paraguays. ''Zoologica'', 18(44), 72–86.
* Dichaeturidae Remane, 1927Remane, A. (1927). Beiträge zur Systematik der Süßwassergastrotrichen. ''Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie, und Geographie der Tiere'', 58(1), 269–320.
* Muselliferidae Leasi & Todaro, 2008
* Neogosseidae Remane, 1927
* Proichthydiidae Remane, 1927
* Xenotrichulidae Remane, 1927Remane, A. (1927). ''Xenotrichula velox'' nov. gen. nov. spec., ein chaetonotoides Gastrotrich mit männlichen Geschlechtsorganen. ''Zoologischer Anzeiger'', 71(11–12), 289–294.