Bilateria

Translingual

Panthera onca (subphylum Deuterostomia)

Euploea core (subphylum Protostomia)

Etymology

New Latin, bi- +‎ plural of Latin latus (“side or flank”)

Proper noun

Bilateria

All animals with bilateral symmetry, the bilaterians:
1. A taxonomic subkingdom within the kingdom Animalia.[1]
2. A taxonomic clade within the subkingdom Eumetazoa.

Hypernyms

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

Hyponyms

(subkingdom): Deuterostomia, Protostomia (infrakingdoms)[1]
(clade): Deuterostomia, Protostomia (superphyla)

Coordinate terms

(subkingdom): unnamed subkingdom(s) containing phyla Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Placozoa, Porifera (sponges)[1]

References

Bilateria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Bilateria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Bilateria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Bilateria at the Tree of Life Web Project
“Bilateria”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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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