Acoela is an order

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Reporter: feedback bot
Assignee: ahahn
Type: Feedback
Summary: Acoela is an order
Resolution: Fixed
Status: Closed
Created: 2015-03-08 20:24:30.503
Updated: 2017-02-22 12:44:54.076
Resolved: 2017-02-22 12:44:54.027
        
        
Description: When looking up Convoluta roscoffensis Acoel was listed as the class and had no order listed. In my invertebrate zoology textbook Acoela is an order within the class Turbellaria.

*Reporter*: Daniel
*E-mail*: [mailto:DAguilar14@unity.edu]]]>
    

Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2017-02-22 12:44:49.909
Updated: 2017-02-22 12:44:49.909
        
Acoela is treated as an invertebrate order in the backbone february 2017.
It is placed into the pyhlum Xenacoelomorpha: http://api.gbif-uat.org/v1/species/8139547

Convoluta roscoffensis is treated as a synonym of Symsagittifera roscoffensis (Graff, 1891) and placed in Acoela:
http://api.gbif-uat.org/v1/species/2499282