Deuterostomia
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Translingual[edit]
Etymology[edit]
New Latin, from deutero- (“second”) + Ancient Greek στόμα (stóma, “mouth”), referring to a theory about the order of embryonic development (compare Protostomia).
Proper noun[edit]
Deuterostomia
- The Chordata and certain other animals that share certain features of embryonic development
- A taxonomic infrakingdom within the subkingdom Bilateria.[1]
- A taxonomic superphylum within the subkingdom Eumetazoa.
Hypernyms[edit]
Hyponyms[edit]
- (infrakingdom and superphylum): Chordata (including the vertebrates), Echinodermata (starfish, etc), Hemichordata (acorn worms), Xenoturbellida (primitive marine worms) (phyla)[1]
Coordinate terms[edit]
- (infra kingdom and superphylum): Protostomia[1]
References[edit]
Deuterostomia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Deuterostomia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Deuterostomia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Deuterostomia at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Deuterostomia at the Tree of Life Web Project
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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