Amniota

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Translingual

Amniota tree

Etymology

From New Latin amnion (“membrane around the fetus”) +‎ -ota.

Proper noun

Amniota

A taxonomic clade within the clade Reptiliomorpha – the most recent common ancestor of extant mammals and reptiles, and all its descendants; the reptiles, birds and mammals, collectively, all of which have an amnion during development.

Hypernyms

(clade): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Tetrapoda - superclass

Hyponyms

(clade): Reptilia - class; Synapsidomorpha - clade

See also

Anamnia

References

Amniote on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Amniota on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Tetrapoda on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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