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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

Relationships towards this taxon

Class group names

*Neomeniamorpha*	Salvini-Plawen, 1978	synonym; alternate representation
*Pholidoskepia*	Salvini-Plawen, 1978	synonym; alternate representation

Children

Acanthomeniidae Salvini-Plawen, 1978
Amphimeniidae Salvini-Plawen, 1972
Aplotegmentaria Salvini-Plawen, 1978
Dondersiidae Simroth, 1893
Drepanomeniidae Salvini-Plawen, 1978
Gymnomeniidae Odhner, 1920
Hemimeniidae Salvini-Plawen, 1978
Imeroherpiidae Salvini-Plawen, 1978
Lepidomeniidae Pruvot, 1902
Macellomeniidae Salvini-Plawen, 1978
Neomeniidae Ihering, 1876
Pachytegmentaria Salvini-Plawen, 1978
Proneomeniidae Mitchell, 1892
Pruvotinidae Heath, 1911
Rhipidoherpiidae Salvini-Plawen, 1978
Rhopalomeniidae Salvini-Plawen, 1978
Simrothiellidae Salvini-Plawen, 1978
Solenogastres incertae sedis
Strophomeniidae 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

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

Spanish, Castillian: solenogastros

Swedish: rovmaskmollusker

Literature

original description	Gegenbaur C. (1878). Grundriss der vergleichenden Anatomie. Zweite verbesserte 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. von. (1978). Antarktische und subantarktische Solenogastres (eine Monographie: 1898-1974). Zoologica (Stuttgart). 128: 1-305.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Solenogastres. 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:2094