Animalia

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See also: animalia

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin animal (“animal, living creature”).

Proper noun

Animalia

All multicellular organisms that have a central nervous system and rely on other organisms for energy
1. A taxonomic kingdom within the domain Eukaryota.
2. A taxonomic kingdom within the superkingdom Eukaryota.^[1]

Synonyms

Metazoa

Hyponyms

(kingdom): Bilateria (Protostomia, Deuterostomia - infrakingdoms), unnamed subkingdom (Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Placozoa, Porifera - phyla)^[1]

Coordinate terms

(kingdom in Eukaryota): Plantae, Fungi, Protozoa, Chromista^[1]

See also

Coelenterata

References

Animalia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Animalia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Animalia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Metazoa at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Animalia at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Animalia at World Register of Marine Species
Animalia at the Tree of Life Web Project

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 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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