Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa

Hemichordata Bateson, 1885

Rank: Phylum
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Enteropneusta Gegenbaur, 1870
Graptolithoidea Beklemishev, 1951

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: hemichordates

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

Swedish: svalgsträngsdjur

Literature

basis of record	Bateson W (1885) The later stages in the development of Balanoglossus kowalevskii, with a suggestion as to the affinities of the Enteropneusta. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 25: 81-122.
additional source	Tassia, M. G.; Cannon, J. T.; Konikoff, C. E.; Shenkar, N.; Halanych, K. M.; Swalla, B. J. (2016). The Global Diversity of Hemichordata. PLOS ONE. 11(10): e0162564.
taxonomy source	Cameron C (2005) A phylogeny of the hemichordates based on morphological characters. Canadian Journal of Zoology: 196-215.
taxonomy source	Cannon JT, Rychel AL, Eccleston H, Halanych KM, Swalla BJ (2009) Molecular phylogeny of hemichordata, with updated status of deep-sea enteropneusts. Mol Phylogenet Evol 52(1): 17-24.