Deuterostomia

Translingual

Dasyurus maculatus (spotted quoll or tiger quoll); phylum Chordata)

Etymology

New Latin, from deutero- (“second”) + Ancient Greek στόμα (stóma, “mouth”), referring to a theory about the order of embryonic development (compare Protostomia).

Proper noun

Deuterostomia

1. The Chordata and certain other animals that share certain features of embryonic development
   1. A taxonomic infrakingdom within the subkingdom Bilateria.
   2. A taxonomic superphylum within the subkingdom Eumetazoa.

Hypernyms

• (infrakingdom): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom

Hyponyms

• (infrakingdom and superphylum): Chordata (including the vertebrates), Echinodermata (starfish, etc), Hemichordata (acorn worms), Xenoturbellida (primitive marine worms) (phyla)

Coordinate terms

• (infra kingdom and superphylum): Protostomia

References

• Deuterostomia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Deuterostomia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Deuterostomia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Deuterostomia at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Deuterostomia at the Tree of Life Web Project