Euglenozoa

Translingual

Etymology

Euglena +‎ -zoa

Proper noun

Euglenozoa

Single-celled flagellates distinguished by heteromorphic paraxonemal rods with relatively thick flagella and tubular extrusomes:
1. A taxonomic infrakingdom within the subkingdom Eozoa.[1]
2. A taxonomic phylum within the infrakingdom Euglenozoa.[1]

Hypernyms

(phylum): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Protozoa - kingdom; Eozoa - subkingdom[1]

Hyponyms

(phylum): Euglenoida, Symbiontida - subphyla; Diplonemea, Kinetoplastea - classes in unnamed subphylum[1]

References

Euglenozoa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Euglenozoa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Euglenozoa at the Tree of Life Web Project
Euglenozoa at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Euglenozoa at Encyclopedia of Life

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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