Ecdysozoa
Translingual
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἔκδυσις (ékdusis, “stripping”) + ζῷον (zôion, “animal”).
Proper noun
Ecdysozoa
- Animals that shed their exoskeleton (ecdysis)
- A taxonomic clade within the clade Protostomia.
- A taxonomic superphylum within the infrakingdom Protostomia.[1]
Hypernyms
- (clade): Animalia - kingdom; Eumetazoa - subkingdom; Bilateria, Nephrozoa, Protostomia - clades
- (superphylum): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom[1]
Hyponyms
- (clade): Cycloneuralia - clades
- Arthropoda, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Onychophora, Priapulida, Tardigrada - extant phyla from these clades
- (superphylum): Arthropoda, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Onychophora, Priapulida, Tardigrada - phyla[1]
Coordinate terms
- (superphylum): Spiralia, also unnamed superphylum containing Chaetognatha, Orthonectida, and Rhombozoa - phyla[1]
References
Ecdysozoa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Ecdysozoa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Ecdysozoa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Ecdysozoa 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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521