Bilateria

Translingual

Panthera onca (subphylum Deuterostomia)

Euploea core (subphylum Protostomia)

Etymology

New Latin, bi- +‎ plural of Latin latus (“side or flank”)

Proper noun

Bilateria

All animals with bilateral symmetry, the bilaterians:
1. A taxonomic subkingdom within the kingdom Animalia.^[1]
2. A taxonomic clade within the subkingdom Eumetazoa.

Hypernyms

(subkingdom): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom^[1]

Hyponyms

(subkingdom): Deuterostomia, Protostomia (infrakingdoms)^[1]
(clade): Deuterostomia, Protostomia (superphyla)

Coordinate terms

(subkingdom): unnamed subkingdom(s) containing phyla Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Placozoa, Porifera (sponges)^[1]

References

Bilateria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Bilateria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Bilateria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Bilateria at OneLook Dictionary Search

1 2 3 4 Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

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