Platyhelminthes
Translingual edit
Alternative forms edit
- Plathelminthes (primarily used in non-English texts)
Etymology edit
New Latin, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat”) + ἕλμινς (hélmins, “parasitic worm”).
Proper noun edit
Platyhelminthes
- The flatworms
- A taxonomic phylum within the superphylum Protostomia.
- A taxonomic phylum within the superphylum Spiralia.[1]
Hypernyms edit
- (phylum in Spiralia): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Spiralia - superphylum[1]
Hyponyms edit
- (phylum in Spiralia): Catenulidea, Rhabditophora - subphyla
- Neophora, Polycladidea - classes in Rhabditophora[1]
Descendants edit
- → English: platyhelminth
See also edit
References edit
Platyhelminthes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Platyhelminthes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Platyhelminthes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Platyhelminthes 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