Benthozoa Explained

The Benthozoa or Myriazoa^[1] are a proposed basal animal clade consisting of the Porifera and ParaHoxozoa as sister of the 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 . Nature . en . 10.1038/s41586-023-05936-6 . 0028-0836. 10232365 .
2. Erives . Albert . Fritzsch . Bernd . 2019-07-17 . A screen for gene paralogies delineating evolutionary branching order of early Metazoa . bioRxiv . en . 704551 . 10.1101/704551 . free.