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Gastrotricha 
AphiaID: 2078

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom)
Authority Metschnikoff, 1865
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Phylum
Parent Animalia
Sources  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. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1982). Five Kingdoms : an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on earth. Second edition. Freeman. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Dutch buikharigen  [details]
English gastrotrichs  [details]
English hairy-backs  [details]
Swedish bukhårsdjur  [details]
Direct child
taxa		 Order Chaetonotida
Order Gastrotricha incertae sedis
Order Macrodasyida

Order Chaetonotoidea accepted as Chaetonotida
Order Macrodasyoidea accepted as Macrodasyida
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2078
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2005-02-17 09:23:32Z  changed  Claus, Simon
2008-12-22 07:59:35Z  changed  Todaro, Antonio
2012-11-20 08:20:14Z  changed  Todaro, Antonio
  
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  Citation: Todaro, A. (2013). Gastrotricha. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=2078 on 2013-06-19
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