List of bilaterian orders

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The relative number of species contributed to the total by each phylum of animals. Arthropoda is the phylum with the most individual organisms.
Superb fairy-wren, Malurus cyaneus
Differences between Deuterostomes and Protostomes
Yellow-winged darter, Sympetrum flaveolum
Pseudobiceros bedfordi, (Bedford's flatworm)
The use of love darts by the land snail Monachoides vicinus is a form of sexual selection

List of bilateral animal orders contains the Bilateria of the animal subkingdom Eumetazoa, divided into four superphyla, Deuterostomia, and the three Protostome superphyla, Ecdysozoa, and the two Spiralia superphyla, Platyzoa and Lophotrochozoa.

Xenacoelomorpha

Xenoturbellida

Acoelomorpha

Nemertodermatida

Acoela

Nephrozoa*
Deuterostomia*
Chordata

Cephalochordata

Olfactores

Urochordata

Craniata (including Vertebrata)

Ambulacraria

Echinodermata

Hemichordata

Protostomia*

Chaetognatha

Ecdysozoa*
Nematozoa

Nematoda

Nematomorpha

Tardigrada

Onychophora

Arthropoda

Scalidophora

Priapulida

Loricifera

Kinorhyncha

Spiralia*
Polyzoa

Bryozoa

Entoprocta

Cycliophora

Trochozoa*

Annelida

Mollusca

Nemertea

Brachiopoda

Phoronida

Platyzoa*

Gastrotricha

Platyhelminthes

Gnathifera

Gnathostomulida

Micrognathozoa

Rotifera

Phylum Xenacoelomorpha

Subphylum Xenoturbelida
Subphylum Acoelomorpha

Nephrozoa (unranked)

Infrakingdom Deuterostomia

Phylum Chordata

Ambulacraria

Phylum Hemichordata

Acorn worm
Class Enteropneusta (Acorn worms)
  • Order Enteropneusta
Class Graptolithina
Class Planctosphaeroidea

No order, one genus, one species Planctosphaera pelagica

Class Pterobranchia

Phylum Echinodermata

Infrakingdom Protostomia

Superphylum Ecdysozoa

Cycloneuralia (unranked)

Scalidophora (unranked)
Phylum Kinorhyncha

No class, 2 orders, called mud dragons, very common in mud or sand

Phylum Loricifera

No class, one order Nanaloricida

Phylum Priapulida
Class Priapulimorpha
Class Halicryptomorpha
  • Order Halicryptomorphida
Class Seticoronaria
Nematoida (unranked)
Phylum Nematoda
Phylum Nematomorpha
Class Gordioidea
Class Nectonematoida

Panarthropoda (unranked)

Phylum Lobopodia
Class Dinocaridida
Class Xenusia
Phylum Onychophora
Tactopoda (unranked)
Phylum Tardigrada
Echiniscus
Class Eutardigrada
Class Heterotardigrada
Phylum Arthropoda

Spiralia (unranked)

Gnathifera (unranked)

Phylum Gnathostomulida

No classes

Phylum Micrognathozoa

Some dispute here with Micrognathozoa as the class and Limnognathia as the order

Phylum Cycliophora
Class Eucycliophora
  • Order Symbiida
Syndermata (unranked)
Phylum Rotifera
Figure 1: SEM pictures of some Bdelloidea species of the genus Rotaria with head (red), tail (white) and trunk (blue) areas highlighted
Class Bdelloidea
Class Monogononta
Class Seisonidea
Phylum Acanthocephala
Scanning electron microscopy of proboscis of an archiacanthocephalan [1]
Class Archiacanthocephala
Class Eoacanthocephala
Class Palaeacanthocephala

Platytrochozoa (unranked)

Mesozoa (unranked)
Phylum Dicyemida

No classes, no orders, families Conocyemidae, Dicyemidae and Kantharellidae

Phylum Monoblastozoa

No classes, no orders, family Salinellidae

Phylum Orthonectida

No classes, no orders, families Pelmatosphaeridae and Rhopaluridae

Rouphozoa (unranked)
Phylum Platyhelminthes
Class Rhabditophora
Subphylum Neodermata
Class Cestoda
Class Monogenea
Class Trematoda
Phylum Gastrotricha

No classes

Superphylum Lophotrochozoa
Phylum Mollusca
Phylum Annelida
Kryptotrochozoa (unranked)
Phylum Nemertea
Lophophorata (unranked)

No classes, no orders, family Phoronidae

No classes, no orders, families Barentsiidae, Loxokalypodidae, Loxosomatidae and Pedicellinidae

References

  1. ^ Amin, O. A; Heckmann, R. A; Ha, N. V. (2014). "Acanthocephalans from fishes and amphibians in Vietnam, with descriptions of five new species. '". Parasite. 21: 53. doi:10.1051/parasite/2014052. PMC 4204126. PMID 25331738.