Translingual

Proper noun

Ecdysozoa

1. Animals that shed their exoskeleton (ecdysis)
   1. A taxonomic clade within the clade Protostomia.
   2. A taxonomic superphylum within the infrakingdom Protostomia.

Hypernyms

• (clade): Animalia - kingdom; Eumetazoa - subkingdom; Bilateria, Nephrozoa, Protostomia - clades
• (superphylum): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom

Hyponyms

• (clade): Cycloneuralia, Cycloneuralia - clades
  • Arthropoda, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Onychophora, Priapulida, Tardigrada - extant phyla from these clades
• (superpylum): Arthropoda, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Onychophora, Priapulida, Tardigrada - phyla

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