- "shedding" + ζῷον (zôion) "animal". The most
notable characteristic shared by
ecdysozoans is a three-layered
cuticle (four in Tardigrada)
composed of
organic material...
- has
since been
determined to
belong to a
protostome group called the
ecdysozoans.
Fossils of the
species were
first discovered in the
Kuanchuanpu Formation...
-
Timetrees Reveal a
Cambrian Colonization of Land and a New
Scenario for
Ecdysozoan Evolution".
Current Biology. 23 (5): 392–398. Bibcode:2013CBio...23..392R...
- Shuhai; Donoghue,
Philip C. J. (17
August 2022). "Saccorhytus is an
early ecdysozoan and not the
earliest deuterostome". Nature. 609 (7927): 541–546. Bibcode:2022Natur...
- Tardigrada, are
close relatives of the
arthropods and
share these traits. The
ecdysozoans also
include the
Nematoda or roundworms,
perhaps the
second largest animal...
-
Beretella is a
genus of
extinct ecdysozoan in the
phylum Saccorhytida. It is the
second genus of its
phylum to be described,
after the
early Cambrian Saccorhytus...
- S2CID 85821717. McMenamin, M.A.S (2003), "Spriggina is a
trilobitoid ecdysozoan" (abstract),
Abstracts with Programs, 35 (6): 105,
archived from the original...
-
Tactopoda or
Arthropodoidea is a
proposed clade of
ecdysozoan animals that
includes the
phyla Tardigrada and Euarthropoda,
supported by
various morphological...
-
annelids and arthropods, two
distinct animal phyla (Lophotrochozoan and
Ecdysozoan, respectively)
which were
still thought to be
close relatives (united...
- its body. However, in 2022,
Saccorhytus is
considered to be an
early ecdysozoan, and was
described as
having "lacked setae". In mycology, "setae" refer...
