Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia

Placozoa

Rank: Phylum
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Trichoplax Schultze, 1883

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: placozoans

English-United States: placozoans

Literature

basis of record	Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp.
additional source	Voigt, O., Collins A.G., Pearse V.B., Pearse J.S., Ender A., Hadrys H., Schierwater B., 2004. Placozoa - no longer a phylum of one. Current Biology 14 22: R944-R945.
additional source	Ender, A., Schierwater B., 2003. Placozoa are not derived Cnidarians: Evidence from molecular morphology. Mol. Biol. Evol. 20 1: 130-134.
additional source	Schierwater, B., de Jong, D., DeSalle, R. (2009) Placozoa and the evolution of Metazoa and intrasomatic cell differentiation. International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology 41: 370-379
additional source	Grell, K.G., Ruthmann, A. (1991) Placozoa. In: Harrison FW, Westfall, J.A., editor. Microscopic Anatomy of Invertebrates, Placozoa, Porifera, Cnidaria, and Ctenophora. New York: Wiley-Liss. pp. 13-28

Genbank

External Links

GenBank
GBIF

Citation

Schierwater, B. (2014). Placozoa. In: Schierwater, B.; Eitel, M.; DeSalle, R. (2014) World Placozoa Database. 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:22737