Turbellaria
See also: turbellaria
Translingual
Etymology
From Latin turbellae (“bustle, stir”), in reference to the stirring of water by the cilia of aquatic Turbellaria.
Proper noun
Turbellaria
- A taxonomic class within the phylum Platyhelminthes – the free-living flatworms.
Usage notes
- Recent evidence indicates that some circumscriptions of the class are paraphyletic and thus subject to major revision as to membership.
Hypernyms
- (class): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Spiralia - superphylum; Platyhelminthes - phylum
Hyponyms
- (class): Archoophora, Catenulida, Haplopharyngida, Lecithoepitheliata, Macrostomida, Polycladida, Prolecithophora, Rhabdocoela, Seriata, Tricladida - orders and subclasses
References
- Turbellaria at World Register of Marine Species
- Turbellaria on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Turbellaria at the Tree of Life Web Project
- Turbellaria at Encyclopedia of Life
- Turbellaria at National Center for Biotechnology Information
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