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Holothuroidea
Holothuroidea
Translingual
Proper noun
Holothuroidea
- A taxonomic class within the phylum Echinodermata – the holothurians.
Hypernyms
- (class): Animalia - kingdom; Eumetazoa - subkingdom; Bilateria, Nephrozoa - clades; Deuterostomia - superphylum; Echinodermata - phylum; Eleutherozoa - subphylum; Cryptosyringida - superclass
Hyponyms
- (class): Apodacea, Aspidochirotacea, Dendrochirotacea - subclasses
- Apodida, Aspidochirotida, Dendrochirotida, Elasipodida, Molpadida - orders per Ruggiero et al.
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