Pliciloricidae are a family of marine organisms in the phylum
Loricifera
Loricifera (from Latin, '' lorica'', corselet (armour) + ''ferre'', to bear) is a phylum of very small to microscopic marine cycloneuralian sediment-dwelling animals that had been determined to be 37 described species, in 9 genera, bu ...
. It contains 23 species in 4 genera.
[World Register of Marine Species (Worms): Pliciloricidae Higgins & Kristensen, 1986 AphiaID: 154507](_blank)
/ref>[Shinta Fujimoto, Hiroshi Yamasaki, Taeko Kimura, Susumu Ohtsuka and Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen. 2020. A New Genus and Species of Loricifera (Nanaloricida: Pliciloricidae) from the Deep Waters of Japan. ''Marine Biodiversity.'' 50: 103. DOI: ''10.1007/s12526-020-01130-3'']
Genera
* ''Pliciloricus
''Pliciloricus'' is a genus of marine organisms Pliciloricidae family, the phylum Loricifera described by Higgins & Kristensen, 1986.Higgins, Robert P.; Kristensen, Reinhardt M 1986: New Loricifera from southeastern United States coastal waters ...
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* '' Rugiloricus''
* '' Titaniloricus''
* '' Wataloricus''
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Loricifera