Foraminifera
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See also: foraminifera
Translingual
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/FMIB_40814_Gromia_lagenoides.jpeg/220px-FMIB_40814_Gromia_lagenoides.jpeg)
Proper noun
[edit]Foraminifera
- The foraminifers, amoeboid single-cell eukaryotes characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm that among other things are used for catching food
Hypernyms
[edit]- (subphylum): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Chromista - kingdom; Harosa - subkingdom; Rhizaria - infrakingdom; Retaria - phylum[1]
- (infraphylum): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Chromista - kingdom; Harosa - subkingdom; Rhizaria - infrakingdom; Retaria - phylum; Ectoreta - subphylum
Hyponyms
[edit]- (subphylum): Monothalamea, Globothalamea, Tubothalamea - classes
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Foraminifera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Foraminifera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Foraminifera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Foraminifera at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Foraminiferida at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Foraminifera at World Register of Marine Species
- 2018, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, "Kingdom Chromista and its eight phyla", Protoplasma, 255:297-357, DOI 10.1007/s00709-017-1147-3