Neochildia

{{Short description|Genus of acoels}}

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| image = Neochildia fusca.jpg

| image_caption = Neochildia fusca

| genus = Neochildia

| parent_authority = Bush, 1975

| species = fusca

| authority = (Bush, 1975)

}}

Neochildia is a monotypic genus of a dark brown acoel belonging to the family Convolutidae. The only species is Neochildia fusca.{{Cite web|url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158682|title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Neochildia fusca Bush, 1975|website=www.marinespecies.org|access-date=2019-06-06}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/66402|title=Neochildia fusca|website=www.uniprot.org|access-date=2019-06-07}}{{Cite journal|last=Bush|first=L.|date=1975|title=Biology of Neochilda fusca N. gen., n. sp. from the northeastern coast of the United States (Platyhelminthes: Turbellaria)|journal=The Biological Bulletin|volume=148|issue=1|pages=35–48|doi=10.2307/1540648|issn=0006-3185|pmid=1115811|jstor=1540648|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/33436 }}

The nervous system is composed of an anterior compact brain organized as a layer of neural somata surrounding a central neuropil free of cell bodies.{{Cite journal|last1=Sprecher|first1=Simon G.|last2=Hartenstein|first2=Volker|last3=Martínez|first3=Pedro|date=2017-07-27|title=Xenacoelomorpha Nervous Systems|url=https://oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264086.001.0001/acrefore-9780190264086-e-203|journal=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Neuroscience|language=en|doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780190264086.013.203|isbn=9780190264086}}