Placozoa (/ˌplækəˈzoʊə/ PLAK-ə-ZOH-ə; lit. 'flat animals') is a phylum of free-living (non-parasitic) marine invertebrates. They are blob-like animals...

species in the phylum Placozoa. The others are Hoilungia hongkongensis, Polyplacotoma mediterranea and Cladtertia collaboinventa. Placozoa is a basal group...

extinct sponges sometimes considered a separate phylum. In other cases, Placozoa is included, depending on the authors. Porifera and Archaeocyatha show...

divided into five infrakingdoms/superphyla, namely Porifera, Ctenophora, Placozoa, Cnidaria and Bilateria. Most living animal species belong to the infrakingdom...

ParaHoxozoa (or Parahoxozoa) is a clade of animals that consists of Bilateria, Placozoa, and Cnidaria. The relationship of Parahoxozoa relative to the two other...

(sponges). The basal eumetazoan clades are the Ctenophora and the ParaHoxozoa. Placozoa is now also seen as a eumetazoan in the ParaHoxozoa. The competing hypothesis...

(jellyfish, hydrozoans, sea anemones and corals), Ctenophora (comb jellies) and Placozoa (tiny "flat animals"). For the most part, bilateral embryos are triploblastic...

Cavalier-Smith, in 1983, redefined Radiata as a subkingdom consisting of Myxozoa, Placozoa, Cnidaria and Ctenophora. Lynn Margulis and K. V. Schwartz later redefined...

Porifera, Diploblasts Diploblasts: Ctenophora, ParaHoxozoa ParaHoxozoa: Placozoa, Cnidaria, Bilateria/Triploblast Bilateria: Xenacoelomorpha, Nephrozoa...

to a subkingdom of three small phyla of simple animals without organs, Placozoa, Orthonectida, and Rhombozoa. They are known as "simple" though they have...

considered a synonym to ParaHoxozoa, which also contains Placozoa. Within Planulozoa, the Placozoa may be a sister of Cnidaria to the exclusion of Bilateria...

recombination to detect sexual reproduction: The contrasting cases of Placozoa and C. elegans". Heredity. 96 (5): 341–342. doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800809...

more derived phyla, i.e. the bilaterians. The less-advanced taxa (i.e. Placozoa, Porifera, Ctenophora and Cnidaria) do not show consolidation of their...

the blastula, during embryonic development. Subkingdom Parazoa Porifera Placozoa Subkingdom Eumetazoa Radiata (unranked) Ctenophora Cnidaria Bilateria (unranked)...

common than previously assumed. Coelentera may only be monophyletic if both Placozoa and Bilateria are included. In particular, the phylogenetic position of...

Schierwater, Bernd (2022-12-08). "Phylogenomics and the first higher taxonomy of Placozoa, an ancient and enigmatic animal phylum". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution...

genus that contains one of the simplest animals and belongs to the phylum Placozoa. Described in 2018, it has only one named species, H. hongkongensis, although...

Polyplacotoma mediterranea is a species in the phylum Placozoa, only representative of the genus Polyplacotoma. They differ greatly from other species...

Schierwater, Bernd (2022-12-08). "Phylogenomics and the first higher taxonomy of Placozoa, an ancient and enigmatic animal phylum". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution...

Choanoflagellata Metazoa (Animalia) Porifera Ctenophora Placozoa Cnidaria Xenacoelomorpha Ambulacraria Chordata Protostomia...

non-vertebrate organisms. The earliest animal phyla are the Porifera, Ctenophora, Placozoa and Cnidaria. No member of these clades exhibit body plans with bilateral...

analyses using a wider range of sponges and other simple Metazoa such as Placozoa. However, reanalysis of the data showed that the computer algorithms used...

sequencing reveals evidence of neuropeptide genes in Cnidaria, Ctenophora, and Placozoa, some of oldest living animals with nervous systems or neural-like tissues...

classes, extinct Phoronida Zeus's mistress Horseshoe worms U-shaped gut 11 Placozoa Plate animals Trichoplaxes, placozoans: 242  Differentiated top and bottom...

        Subphylum Anthozoa         Subphylum Medusozoa     Infrakingdom Placozoa       Phylum Placozoa   Subkingdom Myxozoa     Phylum Myxosporidia   Subkingdom Bilateria...

This list of sequenced animal genomes contains animal species for which complete genome sequences have been assembled, annotated and published. Substantially...

reported to exist in a wide variety of animal species, including protozoa, placozoa and cnidaria (jellyfish and related species), but not in ctenophores (comb...

Ctenophora Porifera Cnidaria Placozoa Bilateria...

Gordian worms or horsehair worms (Nematomorpha) Ribbon worms (Nemertea) Placozoa Loricifera Starfishes, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, sea lilies and brittle...

Schierwater, Bernd (2022-12-08). "Phylogenomics and the first higher taxonomy of Placozoa, an ancient and enigmatic animal phylum". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution...