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Short description: Family of small marine invertebrates

Cateria
Scientific classification e
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%20et%20al.%202022.%20Kinorhynch%20phylogeny.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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