Nemertean taxonomy—Implementing changes in the higher ranks, dismissing Anopla and Enopla

ALFAYA, JOSÉ E.; NORENBURG, JON; ANDRADE, SONIA C. S.; ANDERSSON, HÅKAN S; BIGATTI, GREGORIO; BECKERS, PATRICK; CHUNG, BRIAN M.; CHERNYSHEV, ALEXEY; GONZALEZ-CUETO, JAIME; GIRIBET, GONZALO; HOOKABE, NATSUMI; HIEBERT, TERRA; KRÄMER, DARIA; KAJIHARA, HIROSHI; MASLAKOVA, SVETLANA; MAGARLAMOV, TIMUR YU; SAGORNY, CHRISTINA; OKAZAKI, ROBERT; SUNDBERG, PER; SUN, SHI-CHUN; XU, CONG-MEI; STRAND, MALIN; ÁNGEL FERNÁNDEZ-ÁLVAREZ, FERNANDO; BARTOLOMAEUS, THOMAS; CHERNEVA, IRINA; VON DÖHREN, JÖRN; HERRERA-BACHILLER, ALFONSO; JUNOY, JUAN; KVIST, SEBASTIAN; MENDES, CECILI B.; SCHWARTZ, MEGAN; TURBEVILLE, JAMES M.

ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC

Año: 2018

0300-3256

Wijnhoff?s scheme (1936) that was based on Schultze?s(1851) division of the taxon into the two classes Anopla andEnopla. In August 2018, the 9th International Conference ofNemertean Biology took place in the Wadden Sea Station ofthe Alfred Wegener Institute in List auf Sylt, Germany. Atthis meeting, the community reached consensus to revise nemerteantaxonomy at the class level, based on the compiledevidence from studies on nemertean systematics publishedin the last 15 years (Andrade et al., 2014, 2012 ; Thollesson& Norenburg, 2003). Previous classifications (e.g., Stiasny‐Wijnhoff, 1936) are not based on phylogenetic grounds, andthe use of these names is therefore nowadays not wholly informative. We concludethat the ranks Anopla and Enopla should be eliminated.