Translingual

Proper noun

Hemichordata

1. A taxonomic phylum within the clade Deuterostomia – the hemichordates (including acorn worms), the nearest living relatives to the chordates among invertebrates.

Hypernyms

• (hemichordates): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Eumetazoa - subkingdom; Bilateria - clade; Nephrozoa - clade; Deuterostomia - superphylum

Hyponyms

• (phylum): Enteropneusta, Pterobranchia - classes
  • Caphalodiscida, Graptolithina - subclasses in Pterobranchia; Rhabdopleurida - order in Graptolina; Planctosphaera pelagica - species not assigned to a class

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