Bilateria

Short description: Animals with embryonic bilateral symmetry

Bilaterians

Temporal range: Ediacaran–Present, 560–0 Ma[1]

PreЄ

Diversity of bilaterians
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Subkingdom:  | Eumetazoa
Clade:  | ParaHoxozoa
Clade:  | Bilateria
Hatschek, 1888
Phyla

* Proarticulata? †
* Xenacoelomorpha?
* Nephrozoa?
* Ikaria †
* Superphylum Deuterostomia?
* Chordata
* Xenacoelomorpha?
* Ambulacraria (unranked)
* Hemichordata
* Echinodermata
* Cambroernida †
* Protostomia (unranked)
* Superphylum Ecdysozoa
* Saccorhytida? †
* Scalidophora (unranked)
* Kinorhyncha
* Loricifera
* Priapulida
* Nematoida (unranked)
* Nematoda
* Nematomorpha
* Panarthropoda (unranked)
* Onychophora
* Arthropoda
* Tardigrada
* Spiralia (unranked)
* Gnathifera (unranked)
* Acanthocephala
* Gnathostomulida
* Chaetognatha
* Micrognathozoa
* Rotifera
* Mesozoa (unranked)
* Dicyemida
* Orthonectida?
* Monoblastozoa?
* Rouphozoa (unranked)
* Gastrotricha
* Platyhelminthes
* Superphylum Lophotrochozoa
* Annelida
* Brachiopoda
* Bryozoa
* Cycliophora
* Entoprocta
* Hyolitha †
* Mollusca
* Nemertea
* Phoronida

Synonyms

Triploblasts Lankester, 1873

Bilateria (/ˌbaɪləˈtɪəriə/) is a large clade/infrakingdom of animals called bilaterians, characterized by bilateral symmetry (i.e. having a left and a right side that are mirror images of each other) during embryonic development. This means their body plans are laid around a longitudinal axis (rostral–caudal axis) with a front (or "head") and a rear (or "tail") end, as well as a left–right–symmetrical belly (ventral) and back (dorsal) surface.[2] Nearly all bilaterians maintain a bilaterally symmetrical body as adults; the most notable exception is the echinoderms, which achieve secondary pentaradial symmetry as adults, but are bilaterally symmetrical as an embryo. Cephalization is also a characteristic feature among most bilaterians, where the special sense organs and central nerve ganglia become concentrated at the front/rostral end.

Bilaterians constitute one of the five main metazoan lineages, the other four being Porifera (sponges), Cnidaria (jellyfish, hydrae, sea anemones and corals), Ctenophora (comb jellies) and Placozoa (tiny "flat animals"). Most so-called "higher-order" animals are bilaterians. For the most part, bilateral embryos are triploblastic, having three germ layers: endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm. Except for a few phyla (i.e. flatworms and gnathostomulids), bilaterians have complete digestive tracts with a separate mouth and anus. Some bilaterians lack body cavities (acoelomates, i.e. Platyhelminthes, Gastrotricha and Gnathostomulida), while others display primary body cavities (deriving from the blastocoel, as pseudocoeloms) or secondary cavities (that appear de novo, for example the coelom).

## Contents

* 1 Body plan
* 2 Evolution
* 3 Fossil record
* 4 Phylogeny
* 5 See also
* 6 Notes
* 7 References
* 8 External links

## Body plan

Idealised wormlike nephrozoan body plan. With a cylindrical body and a direction of movement the animal has head and tail ends. Sense organs and mouth form the basis of the head. Opposed circular and longitudinal muscles enable peristaltic motion.

Some of the earliest bilaterians were wormlike, and a bilaterian body can be conceptualized as a cylinder with a gut running between two openings, the mouth and the anus. Around the gut it has an internal body cavity, a coelom or pseudocoelom.[lower-alpha 1] Animals with this bilaterally symmetric body plan have a head (anterior) end and a tail (posterior) end as well as a back (dorsal) and a belly (ventral); therefore they also have a left side and a right side.[4][2]

Having a front end means that this part of the body encounters stimuli, such as food, favouring cephalisation, the development of a head with sense organs and a mouth.[5] The body stretches back from the head, and many bilaterians have a combination of circular muscles that constrict the body, making it longer, and an opposing set of longitudinal muscles, that shorten the body;[2] these enable soft-bodied animals with a hydrostatic skeleton to move by peristalsis.[6] Most bilaterians (Nephrozoans) have a gut that extends through the body from mouth to anus, while Xenacoelomorphs have a bag gut with one opening. Many bilaterian phyla have primary larvae which swim with cilia and have an apical organ containing sensory cells. However, there are exceptions to each of these characteristics; for example, adult echinoderms are radially symmetric (unlike their larvae), and certain parasitic worms have extremely plesiomorphic body structures.[4][2]

## Evolution

Ikaria wariootia, living 571–539 million years ago, is one of the oldest bilaterians identified.[7]

The hypothetical most recent common ancestor of all bilateria is termed the "Urbilaterian".[8][9] The nature of the first bilaterian is a matter of debate. One side suggests that acoelomates gave rise to the other groups (planuloid–aceloid hypothesis by Ludwig von Graff, Elie Metchnikoff, Libbie Hyman, or Luitfried von Salvini-Plawen (nl)), while the other poses that the first bilaterian was a coelomate organism and the main acoelomate phyla (flatworms and gastrotrichs) have lost body cavities secondarily (the Archicoelomata hypothesis and its variations such as the Gastrea by Haeckel or Sedgwick, the Bilaterosgastrea by Gösta Jägersten [sv; sv], or the Trochaea by Nielsen).

One hypothesis is that the original bilaterian was a bottom dwelling worm with a single body opening, similar to Xenoturbella.[3] Alternatively, it may have resembled the planula larvae of some cnidaria, which have some bilateral symmetry.[10] However, there is evidence that it was segmented, as the mechanism for creating segments is shared between vertebrates (deuterostomes) and arthropods (protostomes).[11]

## Fossil record

The first evidence of bilateria in the fossil record comes from trace fossils in Ediacaran sediments, and the first bona fide bilaterian fossil is Kimberella, dating to 555 million years ago.[12] Earlier fossils are controversial; the fossil Vernanimalcula may be the earliest known bilaterian, but may also represent an infilled bubble.[13][14] Fossil embryos are known from around the time of Vernanimalcula (580 million years ago), but none of these have bilaterian affinities.[15] Burrows believed to have been created by bilaterian life forms have been found in the Tacuarí Formation of Uruguay, and were believed to be at least 585 million years old.[16] However, more recent evidence shows these fossils are actually late Paleozoic instead of Ediacaran.[17]

## Phylogeny

The Bilateria has traditionally been divided into two main lineages or superphyla.[18] The deuterostomes include the echinoderms, hemichordates, chordates, and a few smaller phyla. The protostomes include most of the rest, such as arthropods, annelids, mollusks, flatworms, and so forth. There are a number of differences, most notably in how the embryo develops. In particular, the first opening of the embryo becomes the mouth in protostomes, and the anus in deuterostomes. Many taxonomists now recognize at least two more superphyla among the protostomes, Ecdysozoa[19] (molting animals) and Spiralia.[19][20][21][22] The arrow worms (Chaetognatha) have proven difficult to classify; recent studies place them in the gnathifera.[23][24][25]

The traditional division of Bilateria into Deuterostomia and Protostomia was challenged when new morphological and molecular evidence found support for a sister relationship between the acoelomate taxa, Acoela and Nemertodermatida (together called Acoelomorpha), and the remaining bilaterians.[18] The latter clade was called Nephrozoa by Jondelius et al. (2002) and Eubilateria by Baguña and Riutort (2004).[18] The acoelomorph taxa had previously been considered flatworms with secondarily lost characteristics, but the new relationship suggested that the simple acoelomate worm form was the original bilaterian bodyplan and that the coelom, the digestive tract, excretory organs, and nerve cords developed in the Nephrozoa.[18][26] Subsequently the acoelomorphs were placed in phylum Xenacoelomorpha, together with the xenoturbellids, and the sister relationship between Xenacoelomorpha and Nephrozoa confirmed in phylogenomic analyses.[26]

A modern consensus phylogenetic tree for Bilateria is shown below, although the positions of certain clades are still controversial (dashed lines) and the tree has changed considerably since 2000.[27][25][28][29][30]

Planulozoa |  |  |

Cnidaria

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Bilateria |  |  |

†Proarticulata

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Xenacoelomorpha |  |  |

Xenoturbellida

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Acoelomorpha |  |  |

Nemertodermatida

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Acoela

Nephrozoa |  |  Deuterostomia |  |  Chordata |  |  |

Cephalochordata

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Olfactores |  |  |

Urochordata

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Craniata / Vertebrata

Ambulacraria |  |  |

Echinodermata

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Hemichordata

†Cambroernida

|  |  |

†Saccorhytus coronarius

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|  |  |

†Vetulocystids

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†Vetulicolians

Protostomia |  |  Ecdysozoa |  |  |  |  Nematoida |  |  |

Nematoda

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|  |  |

Loricifera

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Panarthropoda |  |  |

Onychophora

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Tactopoda |  |  |

Tardigrada

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Arthropoda

Scalidophora |  |  |

Priapulida

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Kinorhyncha

> 539 Mya
Spiralia |  |  Gnathifera |  |  |

Rotifera and allies

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Chaetognatha

Platytrochozoa |  |  |

Platyhelminthes and allies

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Lophotrochozoa |  |  |

Mollusca

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Annelida and allies

¿†Kimberella?

550 mya
580 Mya

¿†Kimberella?

610 mya
650 Mya
680 Mya

A different hypothesis is that the Ambulacraria are sister to Xenacoelomorpha together forming the Xenambulacraria. The Xenambulacraria may be sister to the Chordata or to the Centroneuralia (corresponding to Nephrozoa without Ambulacraria, or to Chordata + Protostomia). The phylogenetic tree shown below depicts the latter proposal. Also, the validity of Deuterostomia (without Protostomia emerging from it) is under discussion.[31] The cladogram indicates approximately when some clades radiated into newer clades, in millions of years ago (Mya).[32] While the below tree depicts Chordata as a sister group to Protostomia according to analyses by Philippe et al., the authors nonetheless caution that "the support values are very low, meaning there is no solid evidence to refute the traditional protostome and deuterostome dichotomy".[33]

ParaHoxozoa |  |  |  |  |

Placozoa

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Cnidaria

Bilateria |  |  |

†Proarticulata

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Xenambulacraria |  |  Xenacoelomorpha |  |  |

Xenoturbellida

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Acoelomorpha |  |  |

Nemertodermatida

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Acoela

Ambulacraria |  |  |

Echinodermata

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Hemichordata

†Cambroernida

Centroneuralia |  |  Chordata |  |  |

Cephalochordata

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Olfactores |  |  |

Urochordata

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Craniata / Vertebrata

Protostomia |  |  Ecdysozoa |  |  |  |  Nematoida |  |  |

Nematoda

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|  |  |

Loricifera

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Panarthropoda |  |  |

Onychophora

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Tactopoda |  |  |

Tardigrada

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Arthropoda

Scalidophora |  |  |

Priapulida

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Kinorhyncha

> 539 Mya
Spiralia  |  |  Gnathifera |  |  |

Rotifera and allies

|

Chaetognatha

Platytrochozoa |  |  |

Platyhelminthes and allies

|

Lophotrochozoa |  |  |

Mollusca

|

Annelida and allies

¿†Kimberella?

550 Mya
580 Mya

¿†Kimberella?

610 Mya
|  |  |

†Saccorhytus coronarius

|

|  |  |

†Vetulocystids

|

†Vetulicolians

650 Mya
680 Mya

## See also

* Embryological origins of the mouth and anus

## Notes

1. ↑ The earliest Bilateria may have had only a single opening, and no coelom.[3]

## References

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* Tree of Life web project — Bilateria
* University of California Museum of Paleontology — Systematics of the Metazoa

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* Porifera (sponges)

Diploblasts
(Eumetazoa)|

* Ctenophora (comb jellies)

ParaHoxozoa
(Planulozoa)|

| P+C|

* Placozoa (Trichoplax)
* Cnidaria (jellyfish and relatives)

Bilateria
(Triploblasts)|

* Xenacoelomorpha
* Xenoturbellida (Xenoturbella)
* Acoelomorpha
* acoels
* nemertodermatids

Nephrozoa|

* (see below↓)

Nephrozoa

| Deuterostomia|

* Chordata
* lancelets
* tunicates
* Vertebrata/Craniata

Ambulacraria|

* Echinodermata (starfish and relatives)
* Hemichordata
* acorn worms
* pterobranchs

Protostomia|

| Ecdysozoa|

| Scalidophora|

* Kinorhyncha (mud dragons)
* Priapulida (penis worms)

|

N+L+P|

| Nematoida|

* Nematoda (roundworms)
* Nematomorpha (horsehair worms)

|

L+P|

* Loricifera (corset animals)

Panarthropoda|

* Onychophora (velvet worms)

Tactopoda|

* Arthropoda (arthropods)
* Tardigrada (waterbears)

Spiralia|

| Gnathifera|

* Chaetognatha (arrow worms)
* Gnathostomulida (jaw worms)

M+S|

* Micrognathozoa (Limnognathia)
* Syndermata
* Rotifera (wheel animals)
* Acanthocephala (thorny-headed worms)

Platytrochozoa|

| R+M|

| Mesozoa|

* Orthonectida
* Dicyemida or Rhombozoa
* Monoblastozoa (Salinella)†

|

Rouphozoa|

* Platyhelminthes (flatworms)
* Gastrotricha (hairybacks)

Lophotrochozoa|

* Cycliophora (Symbion)
* Annelida (ringed worms)
* Sipuncula ‡

M+K|

* Mollusca (molluscs)

Kryptotrochozoa|

* Nemertea (ribbon worms)

Lophophorata|

| Bryozoa s.l.|

* Entoprocta or Kamptozoa
* Ectoprocta (moss animals)

|

Brachiozoa|

* Brachiopoda (lamp shells)
* Phoronida (horseshoe worms)

* * *

| Major groups
within phyla|

* Sponges
* Hexactinellid
* Demosponge
* Calcareous
* Homoscleromorpha
* Cnidarians
* Anthozoa inc. corals
* Hexacorallia
* Octocorallia
* Medusozoa inc. jellyfish
* Myxozoa
* Vertebrates
* Jawless fish
* Cartilaginous fish
* Bony fish
* Amphibians
* Reptiles
* Birds
* Mammals
* Echinoderms
* Sea lilies
* Asterozoa inc. starfish
* Echinozoa
* Nematodes
* Chromadorea
* Enoplea
* Secernentea
* Arthropods
* Chelicerates/Arachnids
* Myriapods
* Crustaceans
* Hexapods/Insects
* Platyhelminths
* Turbellaria
* Trematoda
* Monogenea
* Cestoda
* Bryozoans
* Phylactolaemata
* Stenolaemata
* Gymnolaemata
* Annelids
* Polychaetes
* Clitellata
* Echiura
* Sipuncula
* Molluscs
* Gastropods
* Cephalopods
* Bivalves
* Chitons
* Tusk shells

|

Phyla with ≥1000 extant species bolded
Potentially dubious phyla †
Disputed phyla ‡
See also
Diploblasts

Wikidata ☰ Q5173 entry

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