Porifera

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Translingual

Aplysina archeri (stove-pipe sponge)

Etymology

From Latin porus (“pore”) +‎ -fera (“bearing”)

Proper noun

Porifera

1. A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Animalia – the sponges.

Hypernyms

• (phylum): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom

Hyponyms

• (phylum): Calcarea, Demospongiae, Hexactinellida, Sclerospongiae - classes

Coordinate terms

• (phylum): Bilateria - subkingdom

References

• Porifera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Porifera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Porifera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Porifera at World Register of Marine Species
• Porifera on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Porifera at the Tree of Life Web Project
• Porifera at Encyclopedia of Life
• Porifera at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• 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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521