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Cotylea (worm)

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Cotylea
Temporal range: TriassicPresent, ~250–0 Ma[1] Based on a molecular clock analysis
From the left to right of each row, from top to bottom: Pseudobiceros gloriosus (Pseudocerotidae), Eurylepta sp. (Euryleptidae), Pericelis sp. (Periceloidea), Chromoplana sirena (Anonymoidea), Cestoplana sp. (Cestoplanidae), and Lurymare clavocapitata (Prosthiostomidae)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Order: Polycladida
Suborder: Cotylea
Lang, 1884
Families

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Cotylea is a suborder of free-living marine turbellarian flatworms in the order Polycladida.[2]

Pseudobiceros gloriosus (flatworm) on Polycarpa aurata (seasquirt)

Taxonomy

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The following clades are recognized as being included in the suborder Cotylea:[3]

References

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  1. Cuadrado, Daniel; Machordom, Annie; Noreña, Carolina (2026-04-11). "A deep-time perspective on Polycladida (Platyhelminthes) through integrated phylogenetic and molecular clock analyses". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. doi:10.1007/s13127-026-00699-0. ISSN 1618-1077.
  2. Rawlinson, Kate A.; Litvaitis, Marian K. (May 2008). "Cotylea (Polycladida): a cladistic analysis of morphology". Invertebrate Biology. 127 (2): 121–138. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2007.00119.x. ISSN 1077-8306.
  3. "World list of turbellarian worms - Cotylea". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2025-09-05.
  4. 1 2 Noreña, Carolina; Marquina, Daniel; Perez, Jacinto; Almon, Bruno (2014-04-22). "First records of Cotylea (Polycladida, Platyhelminthes) for the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula". ZooKeys (404): 1–22. doi:10.3897/zookeys.404.7122. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 4023257. PMID 24843268.
  5. Marquina, Daniel; Aguado, M. Teresa; Noreña, Carolina (2015-09-18). "New records of Cotylea (Polycladida, Platyhelminthes) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, with remarks on the distribution of the Pseudoceros Lang, 1884 and Pseudobiceros Faubel, 1984 species of the Indo-Pacific Marine Region". Zootaxa. 4019 (1): 354. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.14. ISSN 1175-5334.
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