Limnognathia
Limnognathia
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<catset>Category="Animals"</catset><table border=1 cellpadding=0 style="position:relative; margin: 0 0 0.5em 1em; border-collapse: collapse; float:right; clear:right; width:200px;"><tr style="text-align:center;"><th style=" background: pink;"><div style="float:right; font-size:70%; padding:0 .5em 0 2em">?</div><b> Limnognathia</b></th></tr><tr style="text-align:center;"><th style=" background: pink;"><b><a href="Scientific classification">Scientific classification</a></b></th></tr><tr style="text-align:center;"><td> <table cellpadding=2 style="margin:0 auto; text-align:left; background:none;"><tr valign=top><td>Kingdom:</td><td><a href="Animal">Animalia</a></td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Phylum:</td><td><b>Micrognathozoa</b><br><small> Kristensen &amp; Funch,&nbsp; 2000</small></td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Class:</td><td><b>Micrognathozoa</b></td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Order:</td><td><b>Limnognathida</b></td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Family:</td><td><b>Limnognathiidae</b></td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Genus:</td><td><i><b>Limnognathia</b></i></td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Species:</td><td nowrap><i><b>maerski</b></i></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr style="text-align:center;"><th style=" background: pink;"><b><a href="Binomial nomenclature">Binomial name</a></b></th></tr><tr style="text-align:center;"><td><i><b> Limnognathia maerski</b></i><br><small> <a href="Reinhardt Kristensen">Kristensen</a> & Funch, <a href="2000">2000</a></small></td></tr></table><p><i><b>Limnognathia maerski</b></i> is a microscopic animal, discovered in <a href="Greenland">Greenland</a> in 2000, that is given its own phylum, Micrognathozoa. It is related to the <a href="Rotifer">rotifers</a> and <a href="Gnathostomulid">gnathostomulids</a>, grouped together as the <a href="Platyzoa">Gnathifera</a>.