Translingual

Asteroidea

Proper noun

Asteroidea

1. A taxonomic class within the superclass Asterozoa – the starfish.

Hypernyms

• (class): Metazoa - kingdom; Eumetazoa - subkingdom; Bilateria - clade; Deuterostomia - superphylum; Echinodermata - phylum; Eleutherozoa - subphylum; Asterozoa - superclass

Hyponyms

• (class): Brisingida, Forcipulatida, Notomyotida, Paxillosida, Peripoda, Platyasterida, Spinulosida, Valvatida - orders

References

• 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