Dinoflagellata

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Translingual

Ceratium furca one of the Dinoflagellata

Etymology

From dino- (“whirling, rotation”) +‎ Latin flagellum +‎ -ata (“having”).

Proper noun

Dinoflagellata

  1. Many single-cell eukaryotes, with two dissimilar flagella and nuclei unlike those of other eukaryotes, lacking histones and nucleosomes
    1. A taxonomic superclass within the phylum Miozoa.[1]
    2. A taxonomic parvphylum within the phylum Miozoa.

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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
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