Filospermoidea is an order within the phylum Gnathostomulida.[1][2][3] Filospermoids are generally longer than gnathostomulids in the order Bursovaginoidea, and have an elongate rostrum.[4] It lives in North America, off the coasts of the southern United States and the Caribbean, primarily in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as in southeastern Denmark.[5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Gnathostomulida |
| Order: | Filospermoidea |
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Classification
editThe order Filospermoidea contains 29 species in 2 families and 3 genera.[6]
- Family Haplognathiidae[1]
- Genus Haplognathia
- Haplognathia asymmetrica
- Haplognathia belizensis
- Haplognathia filum (sometimes in Pterognathia)
- Haplognathia gubbarnorum (sometimes in Pterognathia)
- Haplognathia lunulifera (sometimes in Pterognathia)
- Haplognathia rosea (sometimes in Pterognathia)
- Haplognathia ruberrima (sometimes in Pterognathia)
- Haplognathia rubromaculata (sometimes in Pterognathia)
- Haplognathia rufa
- Haplognathia simplex (sometimes in Pterognathia)
- Genus Haplognathia
- Family Pterognathiidae[2]
- Genus Cosmognathia
- Genus Pterognathia
- Pterognathia alcicornis
- Pterognathia atrox
- Pterognathia crocodilus
- Pterognathia ctenifera
- Pterognathia hawaiiensis
- Pterognathia grandis
- Pterognathia meixneri
- Pterognathia portobello
- Pterognathia pygmaea
- Pterognathia sica
- Pterognathia sorex
- Pterognathia swedmarki
- Pterognathia tuatara
- Pterognathia ugera
- Pterognathia vilii
References
edit- ^ Adiyodi, K. G.; Adiyodi, Rita G (1988). Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates, Accessory Sex Glands (reprint ed.). John Wiley & Sons. pp. 61, 64. ISBN 0471914665. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
- ^ Giese, Arthur C.; Pearse, John S. (September 17, 2013). Acoelomate and Pseudocoelomate Metazoans (revised ed.). Elsevier. pp. 345–352. ISBN 978-1483260556. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
- ^ Ax, Peter (December 6, 2012). Multicellular Animals: A new Approach to the Phylogenetic Order in Nature (illustrated ed.). Springer Science & Business Medi. pp. 133–136. ISBN 978-3642801143. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
- ^ Barnes, R.F.K. (2001). The Invertebrates: A Synthesis. Oxford: Blackwell Science.
- ^ "Distribution Map: Filospermoidea". Ocean Biogeographic Information System. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
- ^ Sterrer, W. (2006). "Filospermoidea". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
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