Benthozoa Explained

The Benthozoa or Myriazoa[1] are a proposed basal animal clade consisting of the Porifera and ParaHoxozoa as a sister group of Ctenophora.[2]

An alternative phylogeny is given by the Porifera-sister hypothesis in which Porifera are the first diverging animal group.

Notes and References

  1. Schultz . Darrin T. . Haddock . Steven H.D. . Bredeson . Jessen V. . Green . Richard E. . Simakov . Oleg . Rokhsar . Daniel S. . 2023-05-17 . Ancient gene linkages support ctenophores as sister to other animals . . 10.1038/s41586-023-05936-6 . 0028-0836 . 10232365 . en.
  2. Erives . Albert . Fritzsch . Bernd . 2019-07-17 . A screen for gene paralogies delineating evolutionary branching order of early Metazoa . 10.1101/704551 . en.

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