Is the Aplacophora Monophyletic? a Cladistic Point of View

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The origins of molluscs (2015, background): “…studies, based on morphology, pointed to the simple morphology of aplacophorans as evidence for their primitive status in the molluscs, giving them importance for understanding early molluscan evolution (Salvini-Plawen and Steiner 1996; Haszprunar 2000; Salvini-Plawen 2006; Shigeno et al. 2007).”
The New View of Animal Phylogeny (2004, background): “As with annelids, within mollusks we do not have a good understanding of major relationships (see Haszprunar 2000, Steiner & Dreyer 2003, Medina & Collins 2003, Passamaneck et al. 2004).”
Gastropod phylogeny based on six segments from four genes representing coding or non-coding and mitochondrial or nuclear DNA (2003, background): “Although not included in our analysis, scaphopods have recently been shown to be the sister-taxon to the cephalopods (Waller 1998; Haszprunar 2000; Giribet and Wheeler 2002; Wanninger and Haszprunar 2002), in contrast with earlier hypotheses that linked them to the bivalves.”
Higher-level metazoan relationships: recent progress and remaining questions (2011, background): “1 in only one case, Entoprocta (see Nielsen 2001), which has been suggested to be the sister group of Mollusca (Haszprunar 1996, 2000; Haszprunar and Wanninger 2008; Wanninger 2008), based especially on shared features of the foot sole of the larva of Loxosomella murmanica and Neomeniomorpha, but al”