NOMEN: Metameria Valentine 1973 [J.W. Valentine. Coelomate superphyla. // Systematic Zoology, 1973, 22(2): 97–102]
ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Valentine 1973): including: Annelida + Onychophora + Arthropoda; excluding: Tentaculata (= Lophophorata) ; Deuterostomia ; Malacozoa (= Molluscata) ; Sipunculus/fg ; non-coelomate animals
SENIOR
CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS:
= Polymeria Hadzi 1953 (non Polymeria Goldfuss 1820)
JUNIOR
CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYM:
= Euarticulata Nielsen
1995
TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Araneus/fg (sine Limax; incl. Lumbricus)
TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE:
MODERN
STATUS: 
the valid name of widely accepted taxon.