Crinozoa

Translingual

Etymology

From crinis, meaning hair or plume, and zoa, meaning animals.

Proper noun

Crinozoa

A taxonomic subphylum within the phylum Echinodermata – the crinoids or sea lilies and their extinct relatives, echinoderms that are anchored to a substrate for part of their life.

Synonyms

(subphylum): Pelmatozoa

Hypernyms

(subphylum): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Deuterostomia - infrakingdom; Deuterostomia - superphylum; Echinodermata - phylum

Hyponyms

(subphylum): Crinoidea - sole extant class

References

Crinozoa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Crinozoa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Crinozoa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Crinozoa at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Crinozoa at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
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

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