Childia

Childia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Subkingdom:	Eumetazoa
Phylum:	Acoelomorpha
Class:	Acoela
Order:	not assigned
Family:	Childiidae
Genus:	Childia
Species
See text.

Childia is a genus of acoelomorph worms. It is the only genus in the family Childiidae.

Species

Contains the following species:

• Childia aculifera Nilsson, Wallberg & Jondelius, 2011^[1]
• Childia brachyposthium (Westblad 1942)
• Childia crassum (Westblad 1942)
• Childia curinii Nilsson, Wallberg & Jondelius, 2011^[1]
• Childia cycloposthium (Westblad 1942)
• Childia dubium (Westblad 1942)
• Childia etium (Marcus 1954)
• Childia gracilis (Westblad 1945)
• Childia groenlandica (Levinsen, 1879)
• Childia leptoposthium (Riedl 1956)
• Childia macroposthium (Steinböck, 1931)
• Childia submaculatum (Westblad 1942)
• Childia trianguliferum (Westblad 1942)
• Childia vivipara Tekle, Raikova & Jondelius, 2006
• Childia westbladi (Marcus 1950)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Nilsson, K.S., Wallberg, A., & Jondelius, U. (2011). "New species of Acoela from the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the South Pacific." Zootaxa 2867: 1-31.