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Nephrozoa

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Nephrozoa
Temporal range: Ediacaran - Present, 558–0 Ma
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Diversity of nephrozoans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Clade: Filozoa
Clade: Choanozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Clade: ParaHoxozoa
Clade: Bilateria
Clade: Nephrozoa
Jondelius et al. , 2002
Phyla
Synonyms

Eubilateria Peter Ax, 1987

The Nephrozoa (Eubilateria) are a major large clade of bilaterian animals consisting of the deuterostomes and protostomes. It contains every single bilaterian animal besides its living sister clade of the xenacoelomorphs. Around 95% to 98% of animal species are in nephrozoa.