The shell-less, worm-shaped Caudofoveata (=Chaetodermomorpha) is one of the least known groups of molluscs. The taxon consists of 141 recognized species found from intertidal environments to the deep-sea where they live burrowing in sediment. Evolutionary

The shell-less, worm-shaped Caudofoveata (=Chaetodermomorpha) is one of the least known groups of molluscs. The taxon consists of 141 recognized species found from intertidal environments to the deep-sea where they live burrowing in sediment. Evolutionary

Caudofoveata is a class of vermiform molluscs with bilateral symmetry and circular transverse section. There are at least 135 described species of Caudofoveata. Fourteen species have been reported from the coast of the Iberian Peninsula, four of which

The worm-shaped, shell-less aplacophoran molluscs Caudofoveata and Solenogastres have recently received attention as part of the clade Aculifera, but relationships within these two lineages are still largely unknown. Here, we use complete mitochondrial