Neoophora
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”) + ᾠόν (ōión, “egg”) + -φόρος (-phóros, “bearing”), in reference to their ectolecithal eggs.
Proper noun edit
Neoophora
- A taxonomic class within the phylum Platyhelminthes – certain flatworms.
Hypernyms edit
- (order): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Spiralia - superphylum; Platyhelminthes - phylum; Rhabditophora - subphylum
Hyponyms edit
- (class): Eulecithophora (Adiaphanida, Rhabdocoela) - infraclasses in Eulecithophora) Neodermata (Cestoda, Monogenea, Trematoda - infraclasses in Neodermata) - subclasses
References edit
- Neoophora on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Rhabditophora on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Neoophora at Encyclopedia of Life
- 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