Dendrochirotida

Translingual

Thyone fusus, a species of the Dendrochirotida.

Etymology

dendro- (“tree, branch”) +‎ chiro- (“hand”) +‎ -ida, literally “hand-tree, tree of hands”, ultimately from Ancient Greek δένδρον n (déndron, “tree, branch”) +‎ Ancient Greek χείρ f (kheír, “hand”) +‎ Latin -ida. Coined by German zoologist and arachnologist Adolph Eduard Grube in 1840.

Proper noun

Dendrochirotida

1. A taxonomic order within the subclass Actinopoda – dendrochirotids; certain sea cucumbers.

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Deuterostomia – superphylum; Echinodermata – phylum; Eleutherozoa - subphylum; Cryptosyringida - subphylum; Holothuroidea - class; Actinopoda - subclass

Hyponyms

• (order): Cucumariidae, Cucumellidae, Heterothyonidae, Monilipsolidae, Paracucumidae, Phyllophoridae, Placothuriidae, Psolidae, Rhopalodinidae, Sclerodactylidae, Vaneyellidae, Ypsilothuriidae (families)

Descendants

• → English: dendrochirotid (learned)

See also

• Dendrochirotida on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dendrochirotida on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Dendrochirotida on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons