Neoophora
Translingual
Etymology
From Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”) + ᾠόν (ōión, “egg”) + -φόρος (-phóros, “bearing”), in reference to their ectolecithal eggs.
Proper noun
Neoophora
- A taxonomic class within the phylum Platyhelminthes – certain flatworms.
Hypernyms
- (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Spiralia – superphylum; Platyhelminthes – phylum; Rhabditophora - subphylum
Hyponyms
- (class): Eulecithophora (Adiaphanida, Rhabdocoela) - infraclasses in Eulecithophora) Neodermata (Cestoda, Monogenea, Trematoda - infraclasses in Neodermata) - subclasses
References
- Neoophora on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Rhabditophora on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- 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