Ecdysozoa

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Proper noun

Ecdysozoa

Animals that shed their exoskeleton (ecdysis)
1. A taxonomic clade within the clade Protostomia.
2. A taxonomic superphylum within the infrakingdom Protostomia.^[1]

Hypernyms

(clade): Animalia - kingdom; Eumetazoa - subkingdom; Bilateria, Nephrozoa, Protostomia - clades
(superphylum): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom^[1]

Hyponyms

(clade): Cycloneuralia - clades
- Arthropoda, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Onychophora, Priapulida, Tardigrada - extant phyla from these clades
(superphylum): Arthropoda, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Onychophora, Priapulida, Tardigrada - phyla^[1]

Coordinate terms

(superphylum): Spiralia, also unnamed superphylum containing Chaetognatha, Orthonectida, and Rhombozoa - phyla^[1]

References

Ecdysozoa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Ecdysozoa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Ecdysozoa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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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