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  Subphylum Acoelomorpha

Class Acoela

    Family Convolutidae
    Family Mecynostomidae
    Family Actinoposthiidae
    Family Antigonariidae
    Family Antroposthiidae
    Family Dakuidae
    Family Diopisthoporidae
    Family Hallangiidae
    Family Hofsteniidae
    Family Isodiametridae
    Family Nadinidae
    Family Otocelididae
    Family Paratomellidae
    Family Proporidae
    Family Solenofilomorphidae
    Family Taurididae

Taxon Information

The Class Acoela has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has not been reported from North America.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Acoela, [Palaearctic; 2 freshwater species in 2 genera worldwide] (Schockaert et al., 2008).
• Acoela, (Smith, 2001).

Bibliography

• Schockaert, E.R., M. Hooge, R. Sluys, S. Schilling, S. Tyler & T. Artois. 2008. Global diversity of free living flatworms (Platyhelminthes, “Turbellaria”) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595: 41-48. [Available online]
• Smith, D.G. 2001. Platyhelminthes (free-living flatworms). Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, 4th edition: 77-108.

Web Pages

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• The Stylet — Diversity and Systematics of Acoela and Nemertodermatida
• Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
• WikiSpecies
• Wikipedia
• World Register of Marine Species