Ecdysozoa
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Translingual
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἔκδυσις (ékdusis, “stripping”) + ζῷον (zôion, “animal”).
Proper noun
Ecdysozoa
- Animals that shed their exoskeleton (ecdysis)
- A taxonomic clade within the clade Protostomia.
- A taxonomic superphylum within the infrakingdom Protostomia.
Hypernyms
- (clade): Animalia - kingdom; Eumetazoa - subkingdom; Bilateria, Nephrozoa, Protostomia - clades
- (superphylum): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom
Hyponyms
- (clade): Cycloneuralia - clades
- Arthropoda, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Onychophora, Priapulida, Tardigrada - extant phyla from these clades
- (superphylum): Arthropoda, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Onychophora, Priapulida, Tardigrada - phyla
Coordinate terms
- (superphylum): Spiralia, also unnamed superphylum containing Chaetognatha, Orthonectida, and Rhombozoa - phyla
References
Ecdysozoa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Ecdysozoa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Ecdysozoa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Ecdysozoa at the Tree of Life Web Project
- ↑ 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: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248