Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nemertea

Pilidiophora Thollesson & Norenburg, 2003

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Heteronemertea Bürger, 1892
Hubrechtiiformes Chernyshev, 1995, stat. emend. 2011

original description	Thollesson, M.; Norenburg, J. L. (2003). Ribbon worm relationships: a phylogeny of the phylum Nemertea. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. 270(1513): 407-415.
basis of record	Chernyshev, A.V. (2021). An updated classification of the phylum Nemertea. Invertebrate Zoology. 18(3): 188–196.
taxonomy source	Strand, M.; Norenburg, J.; Alfaya, J. E.; Ángel Fernández-Álvarez, F.; Andersson, H. S.; Andrade, S. C. S.; Bartolomaeus, T.; Beckers, P.; Bigatti, G.; Cherneva, I.; Chernyshev, A.; Chung, B. M.; Von Döhren, J.; Giribet, G.; Gonzalez-Cueto, J.; Herrera-Bachiller, A.; Hiebert, T.; Hookabe, N.; Junoy, J.; Kajihara, H.; Krämer, D.; Kvist, S.; Magarlamov, T. Y.; Maslakova, S.; Mendes, C. B.; Okazaki, R.; Sagorny, C.; Schwartz, M.; Sun, S.-C.; Sundberg, P.; Turbeville, J. M.; Xu, C.-M. (2018). Nemertean taxonomy—implementing changes in the higher ranks, dismissing Anopla and Enopla. Zoologica Scripta. 48(1): 118–119.

Norenburg, J.; Chernyshev, A.; Kajihara, H.; Maslakova, S. (2025). World Nemertea Database. Pilidiophora. 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:1320351