Crinozoa

Translingual

Etymology

From crinis, meaning hair or plume, and zoa, meaning animals.

Proper noun

Crinozoa

A taxonomic subphylum within the phylum Echinodermata – the crinoids or sea lilies and their extinct relatives, echinoderms that are anchored to a substrate for part of their life.

Synonyms

(subphylum): Pelmatozoa

Hypernyms

(subphylum): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Deuterostomia - infrakingdom; Deuterostomia - superphylum; Echinodermata - phylum

Hyponyms

(subphylum): Crinoidea - sole extant class

References

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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

Further reading

Crinozoa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Crinozoa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Crinozoa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Crinozoa at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Crinozoa on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

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