Animalia

See also: animalia

Translingual edit

Etymology edit

From Latin animal (“animal, living creature”).

Proper noun edit

Animalia

All multicellular organisms that have a central nervous system and rely on other organisms for energy
1. A taxonomic kingdom within the domain Eukaryota.
2. A taxonomic kingdom within the superkingdom Eukaryota.^[1]

Synonyms edit

Metazoa

Hyponyms edit

(kingdom): Bilateria (Protostomia, Deuterostomia - infrakingdoms), unnamed subkingdom (Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Placozoa, Porifera - phyla)^[1]

Coordinate terms edit

(kingdom in Eukaryota): Plantae, Fungi, Protozoa, Chromista^[1]

See also edit

Coelenterata

References edit

Animalia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Animalia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Animalia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Metazoa at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Animalia at Encyclopedia of Life
Animalia at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Animalia at World Register of Marine Species
Animalia at the Tree of Life Web Project

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 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. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248

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