Bilateria

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Translingual

Panthera onca (subphylum Deuterostomia)
Euploea core (subphylum Protostomia)

Etymology

New Latin, bi- +‎ later- (side or flank) + -ia.

Proper noun

Bilateria

  1. All animals with bilateral symmetry, the bilaterians:
    1. A taxonomic subkingdom within the kingdom Animalia.[1]
    2. A taxonomic clade within the subkingdom Eumetazoa.

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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. PMID 25923521, →DOI