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Crinozoa
Crinozoa
Translingual
Proper noun
Crinozoa
- A taxonomic subphylum within the phylum Echinodermata – the crinoids or sea lilies and their extinct relatives, echinoderms that are anchored to a substrate for part of their life.
Synonyms
- (subphylum): Pelmatozoa
Hypernyms
- (subphylum): Animalia - kingdom; Eumetazoa - subkingdom; Bilateria, Nephrozoa - clades; Deuterostomia - superphylum; Echinodermata - phylum
Hyponyms
- (subphylum): Crinoidea - sole extant class
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