Acoela

Translingual

Etymology

New Latin plural form on Ancient Greek model, from a- +‎ Ancient Greek κοῖλον (koîlon, “a hollow cavity, especially of the body”)

Proper noun

Acoela

1. marine invertebrates that lack a digestive tract and coelomic cavity; acoels
   1. (obsolete, originally) A taxonomic order within the class Turbellaria.
   2. A taxonomic class within the phylum Xenacoelomorpha.

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Spiralia – superphylum; Platyhelminthes – phylum; Turbellaria – class
• (class): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Xenacoelomorpha – phylum; Acoelomorpha – subphylum

Hyponyms

• (order and class): Actinoposthiidae, Anaperidae, Antigonariidae, Antroposthiidae, Childiidae, Convolutidae, Dakuidae, Diopisthoporidae, Hallangiidae, Haploposthiidae, Hofsteniidae, Isodiametridae, Mecynostomidae, Nadinidae, Otocelididae, Paratomellidae, Polycanthiidae, Proporidae, Sagittiferidae, Solenofilomorphidae, Taurididae – families

References

• Acoela on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Acoela on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Acoela on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Acoela at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Acoela at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Acoela 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