Deuterostomia

Translingual edit

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

Etymology edit

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

Proper noun edit

Deuterostomia

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

Hypernyms edit

(infrakingdom): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom^[1]

Hyponyms edit

(infrakingdom and superphylum): Chordata (including the vertebrates), Echinodermata (starfish, etc), Hemichordata (acorn worms), Xenoturbellida (primitive marine worms) (phyla)^[1]

Coordinate terms edit

(infra kingdom and superphylum): Protostomia^[1]

References edit

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

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 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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