Other Ecdysozoan Phyla

Other Ecdysozoan Phyla is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers minor animal phyla of the Ecdysozoa, the animals that grow by moulting their outer covering, that have no group of their own in this subcategory, such as the velvet worms, soft-bodied animals with many unjointed legs, and the horsehair worms, long thin parasites of insects. An entry belongs here when its own cited article describes a minor phylum placed among the moulting animals. It excludes the tardigrades and the scalidophoran phyla, which already have groups, and it excludes the arthropods and roundworms. The group lets a reader compare these lesser known moulting animals.