Placozoa
See also: placozoa
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
New Latin, from Ancient Greek stem of πλάξ (pláx, “something broad or flat”) + ζῷον (zôion, “animal”)
Proper noun edit
Placozoa
- Balloon-like marine animals, the placozoans, believed to be the simplest organism in Animalia.
Hypernyms edit
Hyponyms edit
- (phylum): Placozoa - sole class;[1] Trichoplacidae - sole family; Trichoplax - sole accepted genus; Trichoplax adhaerens - sole accepted species
Coordinate terms edit
- (phylum in unnamed subkingdom of Animalia): Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Porifera[1]
References edit
- Placozoa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Placozoa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Placozoa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Placozoa at the Tree of Life Web Project
- Placozoa at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Placozoa at Encyclopedia of Life
- Placozoa at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Placozoa at World Register of Marine Species
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 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