- "shedding" + ζῷον (zôion) "animal". The most
notable characteristic shared by
ecdysozoans is a three-layered
cuticle (four in Tardigrada)
composed of
organic material...
-
phylogenetics studies have
attempted to
define how
tardigrades relate to
other ecdysozoan groups;
alternative placements have been
proposed within the Panarthropoda...
-
their shared trait of ecdysis,
growth by moulting,
Among the
largest ecdysozoan phyla are the
arthropods and the nematodes. The rest of the protostomes...
- S2CID 85821717. McMenamin, M.A.S (2003), "Spriggina is a
trilobitoid ecdysozoan" (abstract),
Abstracts with Programs, 35 (6): 105,
archived from the original...
- has
since been
determined to
belong to a
protostome group called the
ecdysozoans.
Fossils of the
species were
first discovered in the
Kuanchuanpu Formation...
- 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...
-
Timetrees Reveal a
Cambrian Colonization of Land and a New
Scenario for
Ecdysozoan Evolution".
Current Biology. 23 (5): 392–398. Bibcode:2013CBio...23..392R...
-
proposed to be a stem-group
ecdysozoan, due to
lacking the
radial pharygneal armature that
characterises modern ecdysozoans,
including priapulids. Hou...
- its body. However, in 2022,
Saccorhytus is
considered to be an
early ecdysozoan, and was
described as
having "lacked setae". In mycology, "setae" refer...
-
Cycloneuralia is a
proposed clade of
ecdysozoan animals including the
Scalidophora (Kinorhynchans, Loriciferans, Priapulids), the
Nematoida (nematodes...
