Polychaeta

See also: polychaeta

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many”) + χαίτη (khaítē, “chaeta”).

Proper noun

Polychaeta

1. A taxonomic class within the phylum Annelida – various polychete marine worms.

Hypernyms

• (class): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Spiralia - superphylum; Annelida - phylum

Hyponyms

• (class): Echiura, Errantia (syn. Aciculata), Sedentaria - subclasses; Scolecida - order not assigned to a subclass; Nerillidae - family not assigned to order or subclass

References

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