Cateria

Short description: Family of small marine invertebrates

Cateria

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Kinorhyncha
Class:  | Cyclorhagida
Order:  | Kentrorhagata
Family:  | Cateriidae
Gerlach, 1956
Genus:  | Cateria
Gerlach, 1956[1]

Cateriidae is a family of kinorhynchs placed either in the class Cyclorhagida (according to Sørensen et al.) or Allomalorhagida (according to Herranz et al.).[2] It consists of a single genus, Cateria Gerlach, 1956.[1]

## Species

* Cateria gerlachi Higgins, 1968[3]
* Cateria styx Gerlach, 1956[1]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gerlach, S. (1956). Über einen aberranten Vertreter der Kinorhynchen aus dem Küstengrundwasser. Kieler Meeresforschungen, 12, 120–124.
2. ↑ Herranz, Maria (March 2022). "Phylogenomic analyses of mud dragons (Kinorhyncha)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 168: 107375. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107375. PMID 34952205. https://zenodo.org/record/5838341/files/Herranz et al. 2022. Kinorhynch phylogeny.pdf.
3. ↑ Higgins, R. P. (1968). Taxonomy and postembryonic development of the Crytorhagae, a new suborder for the mesopsammic kinorhynch genus Cateria. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 87(1), 21–39.

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