Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Kinorhyncha > Class Allomalorhagida > Order Anomoirhaga

Neocentrophyidae Higgins, 1969

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Paracentrophyes Higgins, 1983

Literature

original description	Higgins, R. P. (1969). Indian Ocean Kinorhyncha: 2. Neocentrophyidae, a new homalorhagid family. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 82: 113-128.
basis of record	Neuhaus, B.; van der Land, J. (2001). Cephalorhyncha (=Loricifera, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Nematomorpha), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 159-160
additional source	Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp.
taxonomy source	Sørensen, M. V.; Dal Zotto, M.; Rho, H. S.; Herranz, M.; Sánchez, N.; Pardos, F.; Yamasaki, H. (2015). Phylogeny of Kinorhyncha based on morphology and two molecular loci. PLOS ONE. 10(7): e0133440, 1-33.
identification resource	Sánchez, N.; Pardos, F.; Sørensen, M. V. (2014). A new kinorhynch genus, Mixtophyes (Kinorhyncha: Homalorhagida), from the Guinea Basin deep-sea, with new data on the family Neocentrophyidae. Helgoland Marine Research. 68(2): 221-239.
biology source	Cepeda, D.; Álamo, D.; Sánchez, N.; Pardos, F. (2019). Allometric growth in meiofaunal invertebrates: do all kinorhynchs show homogeneous trends?. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 187(4): 1041-1060.

Genbank

Citation

Neuhaus, B. (2025). World Kinorhyncha Database. Neocentrophyidae Higgins, 1969. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101073