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Taxon: Platyhelminthes Gegenbaur, 1859 - flatworms (flatworm)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

*Platytrochozoa* (Clade) Struck, Wey-Fabrizius, Golombek, Hering, Weigert, Bleidorn, Klebow, Iakovenko, Hausdorf, Petersen, Kück, Herlyn & Hankeln 2014		Ref: T.H. Struck et al., 2014: 1839.
*Rouphozoa* (Clade) Struck, Wey-Fabrizius, Golombek, Hering, Weigert, Bleidorn, Klebow, Iakovenko, Hausdorf, Petersen, Kück, Herlyn & Hankeln 2014		Ref: T.H. Struck et al., 2014: 1839.

Current position

Rouphozoa (Clade) Struck, Wey-Fabrizius, Golombek, Hering, Weigert, Bleidorn, Klebow, Iakovenko, Hausdorf, Petersen, Kück, Herlyn & Hankeln 2014

Ref: T.-M. Lu et al., 2017: 6 (fig. 4a).

Alternative positions

*Lophotrochozoa* (Clade) Halanych, Bacheller, Aguinaldo, Liva, Hillis & Lake 1995 [Halanych, Garey, Servin & Lake 2020]	Ref: K. de Queiroz et al., 2020: viii.
*Spiralia* ([unranked]) Schleip, 1929	Ref: E.E. Ruppert et al., 2004: 221.

Historical positions

*Lophotrochozoa* (Clade) Halanych, Bacheller, Aguinaldo, Liva, Hillis & Lake 1995 [Halanych, Garey, Servin & Lake 2020]	Ref: K. de Queiroz et al., 2020: viii.
*Rouphozoa* (Clade) Struck, Wey-Fabrizius, Golombek, Hering, Weigert, Bleidorn, Klebow, Iakovenko, Hausdorf, Petersen, Kück, Herlyn & Hankeln 2014	Ref: T.-M. Lu et al., 2017: 6 (fig. 4a).

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