Persiculida is an
order of
sea cucumbers. Taxa within the order Persiculida were previously classified in an order called Aspidochirotida, which was determined to be
polyphyletic
A polyphyletic group is an assemblage that includes organisms with mixed evolutionary origin but does not include their most recent common ancestor. The term is often applied to groups that share similar features known as Homoplasy, homoplasies ...
in 2017.
References
Echinoderm orders
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