List of bilaterian orders

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.

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
Subphylum Xenoturbelida
Subphylum Acoelomorpha

Nephrozoa (unranked)

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

No order, one genus, one species Planctosphaera pelagica

Class Pterobranchia

Infrakingdom Protostomia

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Superphylum Ecdysozoa

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Kinorhyncha

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

 
Pliciloricus enigmaticus or enigmatus

No class, one order Nanaloricida

 
Priapulus caudatus
Class Priapulimorpha
Class Halicryptomorpha
  • Order Halicryptomorphida
Class Seticoronaria
Nematoida (unranked)
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Class Gordioidea
Class Nectonematoida
Phylum Lobopodia
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Class Xenusia

No classes, no orders, families Peripatidae and Peripatopsidae

Tactopoda (unranked)
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Hypsibius dujardini
 
Echiniscus
Class Eutardigrada
Class Heterotardigrada

Spiralia (unranked)

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Gnathifera (unranked)

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No classes

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

Phylum Cycliophora
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Class Eucycliophora
  • Order Symbiida
Syndermata (unranked)
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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
 
Scanning electron microscopy of proboscis of an archiacanthocephalan [1]
Class Archiacanthocephala
Class Eoacanthocephala
Class Palaeacanthocephala
Mesozoa (unranked)
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No classes, no orders, families Conocyemidae, Dicyemidae and Kantharellidae

No classes, no orders, family Salinellidae

No classes, no orders, families Pelmatosphaeridae and Rhopaluridae

Rouphozoa (unranked)
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Phylum Platyhelminthes
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Taenia saginata
Class Rhabditophora
Subphylum Neodermata
Class Cestoda
Class Monogenea
Class Trematoda
 
Botulus microporus
 
Helicometra

No classes

Phylum Nemertea
Lophophorata (unranked)

No classes, no orders, family Phoronidae

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

References

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  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.