Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Xenacoelomorpha > Subphylum Xenacoela > Infraphylum Xenoturbellida > Family Xenoturbellidae

Xenoturbella Westblad, 1949

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Xenoturbella bocki Westblad, 1949

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Swedish: bockadjuret

Literature

original description	Westblad E. (1949). Xenoturbella bocki n.g., n.sp., a peculiar, primitive Turbellarian type. Arkiv för Zoologi 1: 3-29
additional source	Israelsson, O. (1999). New light on the enigmatic Xenoturbella (phylum uncertain): ontogeny and phylogeny. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London). 266: 835-841.
additional source	Nielsen C. 2010. After all: Xenoturbella is an acoelomorph!. Evolution & Development 12: 241–243
additional source	Reisinger, E. (1960). Was ist Xenoturbella?. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie. 164: 188-198.
status source	Bourlat S.J., Juliusdottir T., Lowe C.J., Freeman R., Aronowicz J., Kirschner M., Lander E.S., Thorndyke M., Nakano H., Kohn A.B., Heyland A., Moroz L.L., Copley R.R. & Telford M.J., 2006. Deuterostome phylogeny reveals monophyletic chordates and the new phylum Xenoturbellida. Nature 444: 85-88