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Clypeasteroida
Clypeasteroida
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Proper noun
Clypeasteroida
- A taxonomic order within the superorder Gnathostomata – the sand dollars.
Hypernyms
- (order): Animalia - kingdom; Eumetazoa - subkingdom; Bilateria, Nephrozoa - clades; Deuterostomia - superphylum; Echinodermata - phylum; Eleutherozoa - subphylum; Cryptosyringida - superclass, Echinoidea - class, Euechinoidea - subclass
Hyponyms
- (order): Clypeasterina, Laganina, Rotulina, Scutellina (suborders)
References
- 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