Turbellaria

See also: turbellaria

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin turbellae (“bustle, stir”), in reference to the stirring of water by the cilia of aquatic Turbellaria.

Proper noun

Turbellaria

1. A taxonomic class within the phylum Platyhelminthes – free-living flatworms.

Usage notes

• Recent evidence indicates that some circumscriptions of the class are paraphyletic and thus subject to major revision as to membership.

Hypernyms

• (class): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Spiralia - superphylum; Platyhelminthes - phylum

Hyponyms

• (class): Archoophora, Catenulida, Haplopharyngida, Lecithoepitheliata, Macrostomida, Polycladida, Prolecithophora, Rhabdocoela, Seriata, Tricladida - orders and subclasses

References

• Turbellaria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Turbellaria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Turbellaria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Turbellaria at World Register of Marine Species
• Turbellaria at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Turbellaria at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Turbellaria at the Tree of Life Web Project