Echiura
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Translingual
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἔχις (ékhis, “viper”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).
Proper noun
Echiura
- A taxonomic subclass within the class Polychaeta – the spoon worms.
Hypernyms
- (subclass): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Spiralia – superphylum; Annelida – phylum; Polychaeta – class
Hyponyms
- (subclass): Echiuroinea, Heteromyota, Xenopneusta - orders
References
Echiura on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Echiura on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Echiura on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - 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
