†unranked clade Scalidophora
Parent taxon: Ecdysozoa according to T. H. P. Harvey and N. J. Butterfield 2017
See also Edgecombe et al. 2011, Liu et al. 2014, Zhang et al. 2015 and Zrzavy et al. 1998
Sister taxa: Cephalorhyncha, Cycloneuralia, Nematozoa, Onychophora, Panarthropoda
Subtaxa: Eokinorhynchus Eolympia Eopriapulites Kinorhyncha Loricifera