Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa

Loricifera Kristensen, 1983

Rank: Phylum
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Nanaloricida Kristensen, 1983

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: girdle wearers; loriciferans sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: 胴甲動物 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: korsettdjur

Literature

original description	Kristensen, R. M. (1983). Loricifera, A New Phylum with Aschelminthes Characters from the Meiobenthos. Zeitschrift fur Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung, 21: 163-180.
additional source	Neuhaus, B.; van der Land, J. (2001). Cephalorhyncha (=Loricifera, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Nematomorpha), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 159-160
additional source	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
status source	Ruggiero, M.A., D.P. Gordon, T.M. Orrell, N. Bailly, T. Bourgoin, R.C. Brusca, T. Cavalier-Smith, M.D. Guiry & P.M. Kirk. (2015). A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLOS ONE. 10(4):1-60.
identification resource	Fujimoto, S.; Kristensen, R.M. (2020). Loricifera. In: Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (ed): Guide to the Identification of Marine Meiofauna. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. 415-427.

Genbank

Citation

Fujimoto, S.; Sørensen, M.V. (2025). World List of Loricifera. Loricifera. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101061