'Acoela' is an order of animals treated either as a group of
flatworms or as one of the two classes of the phylum
Acoelomorpha, containing the majority of that phylum's species. It contains about 20 families.
As the most primitive
bilateral animals, Acoela provide interesting insights into early animal evolution and development - the best studied being the European species ''
Symsagittifera roscoffensis''.