Urochordata

Translingual

Etymology

New Latin, Ancient Greek οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) + Latin chorda (“cord”) +‎ -ata

Proper noun

Urochordata

1. A taxonomic subphylum within the phylum Chordata – tunicates or sea squirts.

Synonyms

• (subphylum): Tunicata

Hypernyms

• (subphylum): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum

Hyponyms

• (subphylum): Appendicularia, Ascidiacea, Thaliacea - classes per Ruggiero et al.
• Ascidiacea, Larvacea (= Appendicularia), Sorberacea, Thaliacea - classes

References

• Urochordata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Urochordata on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Urochordata on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Urochordata at the Tree of Life Web Project
• Urochordata at World Register of Marine Species
• 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. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248