Superfamily STICHOPILIOIDEA Haeckel, 1882 n. stat.

Stichopilida Haeckel, 1882: 439 [as a tribe]; 1887: 1435, 1436 [as a subfamily].

Triacartilae – Campbell 1954: D136 [as a subsuperfamily]. — Nakaseko 1957: 27 [as a subsuperfamily]. — Dieci 1964: 188 [as a subsuperfamily].

DIAGNOSIS. — Same as the family.

REMARKS

Sandin et al. (2019) placed Ectotoxon (originally Extotoxon [sic]) in the same clade as the Artostrobiidae . However, this placement is wrong due to a misidentification. Thus, there is no molecular support to determine the higher classification position of the Stichopiliidae and the independency of the superfamily Stichopilioidea .