Foraminifera

See also: foraminifera

Translingual edit

Allogromia lagenoides, one of the Foraminifera

Proper noun edit

Foraminifera

Tthe foraminifers, amoeboid single-cell eukaryotes characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm that among other things are used for catching food
1. A taxonomic subphylum within the phylum Retaria.^[1]
2. A taxonomic infraphylum within the phylum Retaria.

Hypernyms edit

(subphylum): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Chromista - kingdom; Harosa - subkingdom; Rhizaria - infrakingdom; Retaria - phylum^[1]
(infraphylum): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Chromista - kingdom; Harosa - subkingdom; Rhizaria - infrakingdom; Retaria - phylum; Ectoreta - subphylum

Hyponyms edit

(subphylum): Monothalamea, Globothalamea, Tubothalamea - classes
- Allogromiida, Astrorhizida, Psamminida, Stannomida; Carterinida, Globerigenida, Lagenida, Lituolida, Lofusiida, Robertinida, Rotaliida, Testulariida, Trochamminida; Miliolida, Spirillinida - orders^[1]

See also edit

References edit

Foraminifera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Foraminifera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Foraminifera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Foraminifera at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Foraminifera at Encyclopedia of Life
Foraminiferida at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Foraminifera at World Register of Marine Species
2018, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, "Kingdom Chromista and its eight phyla", Protoplasma, 255:297-357, DOI 10.1007/s00709-017-1147-3

↑ ^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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