Caenorhabditis
Translingual
Etymology
From Ancient Greek καινός (kainós, “new”) and Rhabditis (the genus of which it was originally treated as a subgenus)
Proper noun
Caenorhabditis f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Rhabditidae – many nematodes, some of which are model organisms in genetics.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Nematoda - phylum; Chromadorea - class; Rhabditida - order; Rhabditina - suborder; Rhabditomorpha - infraorder; Rhabditidae - family; Peloderinae - subfamily
Hyponyms
- (genus): Caenorhabditis elegans - species used as model organism of nematodes
References
- Caenorhabditis at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Caenorhabditis at Encyclopedia of Life
- Caenorhabditis on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Caenorhabditis at World Register of Marine Species
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