Foraminifera
See also: foraminifera
Translingual
editProper noun
editForaminifera
- The foraminifers, amoeboid single-cell eukaryotes characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm that among other things are used for catching food
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
See also
editReferences
edit- Foraminifera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Foraminifera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Foraminifera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Foraminifera at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- 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