Deuterostomia

Translingual

Dasyurus maculatus (spotted quoll or tiger quoll); phylum Chordata)

Etymology

New Latin, from deutero- (“second”) + Ancient Greek στόμα (stóma, “mouth”), referring to a theory about the order of embryonic development (compare Protostomia).

Proper noun

Deuterostomia

The Chordata and certain other animals that share certain features of embryonic development
1. A taxonomic infrakingdom within the subkingdom Bilateria.[1]
2. A taxonomic superphylum within the subkingdom Eumetazoa.

Hypernyms

(infrakingdom): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom[1]

Hyponyms

(infrakingdom and superphylum): Chordata (including the vertebrates), Echinodermata (starfish, etc), Hemichordata (acorn worms), Xenoturbellida (primitive marine worms) (phyla)[1]

Coordinate terms

(infra kingdom and superphylum): Protostomia[1]

References

Deuterostomia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Deuterostomia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Deuterostomia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Deuterostomia at the Tree of Life Web Project
Deuterostomia at National Center for Biotechnology Information

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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

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