- "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...
-
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...
-
their shared trait of ecdysis,
growth by moulting,
Among the
largest ecdysozoan phyla are the
arthropods and the nematodes. The rest of the protostomes...
-
phylogenetics studies have
attempted to
define how
tardigrades relate to
other ecdysozoan groups;
alternative placements have been
proposed within the Panarthropoda...
-
Cycloneuralia is a
proposed clade of
ecdysozoan animals including the
Scalidophora (Kinorhynchans, Loriciferans, Priapulids), the
Nematoida (nematodes...
- 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...
-
Tactopoda or
Arthropodoidea is a
proposed clade of
ecdysozoan animals that
includes the
phyla Tardigrada and Euarthropoda,
supported by
various morphological...
-
spines that had
broken off; the
saccorhytids are now
considered to be
ecdysozoans. Liu et al. 2024 (Note that
while the
paper leaves the classification...
