Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca

Solenogastres Gegenbaur, 1878

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

note: Originally proposed as a group of "worms" of uncertain affinity, to include both Neomenia and Chaetoderma, which are respectively representative of the Solenogastres (in the modern acception) anc Caudofoveata. At that time the group was not

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Aplotegmentaria Salvini-Plawen, 1978
Pachytegmentaria Salvini-Plawen, 1978

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: wormweekdieren sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.

English: solenogasters

Spanish, Castillian: solenogastros

Swedish: rovmaskmollusker

Literature

original description	Gegenbaur C. 1878. Grundriss der vergleichenden Anatomie. Zweite verbesswerte Auflage. Leipzig, W. Engelmann. 655 p.
basis of record	García-Álvarez O. & Salvini-Plawen L.v. (2007). Species and diagnosis of the families and genera of Solenogastres (Mollusca). Iberus 25(2): 73-143.
additional source	An outline for the classification of Phylum Mollusca in taxonomic databases [report elaborated by WoRMS editors for internal use, june 2010]
additional source	Salvini-Plawen L v. (1978). Antarktische und subantarktische Solenogastres (eine Monographie: 1898-1974). Zoologica (Stuttgart) 128: 1-305.

Taxon found in 354 publications.

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Citation

Garcia-Alvarez, O.; Gofas, S. (2014). Solenogastres. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2094