Spiralia
Sign in to saveThe Spiralia are a morphologically diverse clade of protostome animals, including within their number the molluscs, annelids, platyhelminths and other taxa. The term Spiralia is applied to those phyla that exhibit canonical spiral cleavage, a pattern of early development found in most members of the Lophotrochozoa.
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- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- protostome
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- Habrotrocha rosa 1.jpg
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- P105
- superphylum
- P523
- Cryogenian
- P13318
- asexual reproduction
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3 sectionsContents
- Distribution of spiralian development across phylogeny
- Lophotrochozoa within Spiralia
- References
The Spiralia are a morphologically diverse clade of protostome animals, including within their number the molluscs, annelids, platyhelminths and other taxa. The term Spiralia is applied to those phyla that exhibit canonical spiral cleavage, a pattern of early development found in most members of the Lophotrochozoa.
==Distribution of spiralian development across phylogeny==