Acotylea
Suborder of flatworms
Acotylea is a suborder of free-living marine turbellarian flatworms in the order Polycladida .
Description
As currently defined, Acotylea includes polyclads with a Lang's vesicle in the female reproductive system and the male copulatory apparatus directed backwards. When tentacles are present, they are nuchal. The eyespot groups can be nuchal, cerebral, and marginal.
Taxonomy
The internal classification of Acotylea has been unstable, with some genera and families constantly changing place as new molecular and morphological data are analyzed. The current classification is presented below:
Superfamily Leptoplanoidea Faubel, 1984
Family Candimboididae Faubel, 1983
Family Euplanidae Er. Marcus & Ev. Marcus , 1966
Family Faubelidae Ozdikmen, 2010
Family Gnesiocerotidae Marcus and Marcus, 1966
Family Leptoplanidae Stimpson, 1857
Family Mucroplanidae Faubel, 1983
Family Notocomplanidae Litvaitis, Bolaños & Quiroga, 2019
Family Notoplanidae Marcus and Marcus, 1966
Family Palauidae Faubel, 1983
Family Pleioplanidae Faubel, 1983
Family Pseudostylochidae Faubel, 1983
Family Stylochoplanidae Meixner, 1907
Superfamily Stylochoidea Stimpson, 1857
Family Callioplanidae Hyman, 1953
Family Discoprosthididae Faubel, 1983
Family Hoploplanidae Stummer-Traunfels, 1933
Family Idioplanidae Dittmann, Cuadrado, Aguado, Noreña & Egger, 2019
Family Latocestidae Laidlaw, 1903
Family Planoceridae Lang, 1884
Family Plehniidae Bock, 1913
Family Stylochidae Stimpson, 1857
Not placed in any Superfamily
References
↑ Cuadrado, Daniel; Machordom, Annie; Noreña, Carolina (2026-04-11). "A deep-time perspective on Polycladida (Platyhelminthes) through integrated phylogenetic and molecular clock analyses" . Organisms Diversity & Evolution . doi :10.1007/s13127-026-00699-0 . ISSN 1618-1077 .
↑ Bahia, Juliana; Padula, Vinicius; Schrödl, Michael (2017). "Polycladida phylogeny and evolution: Integrating evidence from 28S rDNA and morphology". Organisms Diversity & Evolution . 17 (3): 653– 678. Bibcode :2017ODivE..17..653B . doi :10.1007/s13127-017-0327-5 .
↑ Dittmann, Isabel L.; Cuadrado, Daniel; Aguado, Maria Teresa ; Noreña, Carolina; Egger, Bernhard (2019). "Polyclad phylogeny persists to be problematic". Organisms Diversity & Evolution . 19 (4): 585– 608. Bibcode :2019ODivE..19..585D . doi :10.1007/s13127-019-00415-1 . hdl :10261/247677 .
↑ Oya, Yuki; Kajihara, Hiroshi (2020). "Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of Acotylea (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida)". Zoological Science . 37 (3): 271– 279. doi :10.2108/zs190136 . PMID 32549541 .
↑ Goodheart, Jessica A.; Collins, Allen G.; Cummings, Michael P.; Egger, Bernhard; Rawlinson, Kate A. (2023). "A phylogenomic approach to resolving interrelationships of polyclad flatworms, with implications for life-history evolution" . Royal Society Open Science . 10 (3). Bibcode :2023RSOS...1020939G . doi :10.1098/rsos.220939 . PMC 10049750 .