Eleutherozoa

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Eleutherozoa
Temporal range: Cambrian – Recent
Ochre sea star on beach, Olympic National Park USA.jpg
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Subphylum: Eleutherozoa
Bather, 1900
Classes[1]
    • Class Asteroidea
    • Class Echinoidea
    • Class Holothuroidea
    • Class Ophiuroidea
    • Order †Somasteroidea

Eleutherozoa is a proposed subphylum of echinoderms. They are mobile animals with the mouth directed towards the substrate. They usually have a madreporite, tube feet, and moveable spines of some sort, and some have on the . All living echinoderms except Crinozoa and Blastozoa belong here.

Systematics[]

There are 2 main competing hypotheses about the internal subdivision, both about equally well supported by both molecular and morphological data. They differ in their placement of the Ophiuroidea (brittle stars), and are named accordingly.

The "Cryptosyringida" hypothesis posits that the "sea-star" morphology is plesiomorphic for Eleutherozoa as a whole, and that starfish (Asteroidea) and brittle stars are not very closely related, the latter forming the clade together with the Echinozoa. The "Asterozoa" hypothesis, on the other hand, implies that the "sea-star" arms of starfish and brittle stars, as well as the rounded shape of Echinozoa, all evolved independently from an ancestor of unknown morphology, but that each "armed" and "rounded" lineage is strictly monophyletic. Too little is known of the basal eleutherozoans and echinoderms to be able to firmly decide for or against any of these hypotheses at present.[2]

The Asterozoa would have to be ranked as a superclass or treated as an unranked clade between the Cryptosyringida and the Eleutherozoa, depending on whether the "Asterozoa" or "Cryptosyringida" hypothesis eventually turns out to be correct.

Some old research favours the following classification:[3][4]

 

Crinoids

 
ELEUTHEROZOA
Asterozoa
 

Asteroidea

 
 

†Somasteroidea

 
 
 
 

Ophiuroids

 
Echinozoa
 

Holothuroideas

 
 

Echinoids

 
 
 
 

But more newer research with more advanced technology, favours this cladogram:[5][6]

Echino‑
 

Crinoidea (feather stars) Crinoid on the reef of Batu Moncho Island.JPG

 
 
Echinozoa
Holothuroidea

Holothuroidea.JPG

sea cucumbers
Echinoidea

S. variolaris.jpg

sea urchins, etc
 
Asterozoa
Ophiuroidea

Ophiura ophiura.jpg

brittle stars
Asteroidea

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starfish
 
 
dermata

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ Milsom (2010)
  2. ^ Wray (1999)
  3. ^ Smith, A. (2007). "Echinoderms: Attachment, torsion and the origins of a radical new body plan" (PDF). In Budd, G. E.; Streng, M.; Daley, A. C.; Willman, S. (eds.). Programme with Abstracts. Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting. Vol. 51. Uppsala, Sweden.
  4. ^ Smith, A.B. (2005). "The pre-radial history of echinoderms". Geological Journal. 40 (3): 255–280. doi:10.1002/gj.1018.
  5. ^ Telford, M. J.; Lowe, C. J.; Cameron, C. B.; Ortega-Martinez, O.; Aronowicz, J.; Oliveri, P.; Copley, R. R. (2014). "Phylogenomic analysis of echinoderm class relationships supports Asterozoa". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 281 (1786): 20140479. doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.0479. PMC 4046411. PMID 24850925.
  6. ^ Escriva, Hector; Reich, Adrian; Dunn, Casey; Akasaka, Koji; Wessel, Gary (2015). "Phylogenomic Analyses of Echinodermata Support the Sister Groups of Asterozoa and Echinozoa". PLOS ONE. 10 (3): e0119627. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1019627R. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0119627. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4368666. PMID 25794146.

References[]

  • Wray, Gregory A. (1999): Tree of Life Web Project: Echinodermata: Spiny-skinned animals: sea urchins, starfish, and their allies. Version of 1999-DEC-14. Retrieved 2008-FEB-02.
  • Milsom, Clare. Fossils at a glance. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.


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