Nephrozoa
Appearance
| Nephrozoa | |
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| Diversity of nephrozoans | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Clade: | Filozoa |
| Clade: | Choanozoa |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Subkingdom: | Eumetazoa |
| Clade: | ParaHoxozoa |
| Clade: | Bilateria |
| Clade: | Nephrozoa Jondelius et al. , 2002 |
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| Synonyms | |
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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.