Phylum in a sentence

His Kingdom Bacteria includes Archaebacteria as a phylum of the subkingdom Unibacteria which comprises only one other phylum: the Posibacteria.

All medusa-producing species belong to the sub-phylum Medusozoa.

Animals in the phylum Ctenophora ("sea-gooseberries" or "comb jellies") are transparent and jelly-like but have no nematocysts, and are harmless to humans.

A top-level (largest) family is often called a phylum or stock.

Austric main A link with the Austroasiatic languages in an ' Austric ' phylum is based mostly on typological evidence.

By 1891 bryozoans (ectoprocts) were grouped with phoronids in a super-phylum called "Tentaculata".

Cause main Malaria parasites belong to the genus Plasmodium (phylum Apicomplexa ).

For a new body plan—a new phylum —to spring into existence, what actually has to happen on the ground is that a child is born which suddenly, out of the blue, is as different from its parents as a snail is from an earthworm.

Gregersen (1972) proposed that Niger–Congo and Nilo-Saharan be united into a larger phylum, which he termed Kongo–Saharan.

Hemichordates are classically known to develop in two ways, both directly and indirectly. citation Hemichordates are a phylum composed of two classes, the enteropneusts and the pterobranchs, both being forms of marine worm.

However, the fossil record of the microscopic non-mineralized group is (perhaps unsurprisingly) scarce, so it is difficult to trace out the phylum's evolutionary history in any detail.

It has not been demonstrated that the Nilo-Saharan languages constitute a valid genetic grouping, and linguists have generally seen the phylum as "Greenberg's wastebasket", into which he placed all the otherwise unaffiliated non-click languages of Africa.

Modern taxonomy includes a rank of family between order and genus and a rank of phylum between kingdom and class that were not present in Linnaeus' original system.

Munda Proto-Munda (or Para -Munda) and a "lost phylum" (perhaps related or ancestral to the Nihali language ) citation have been proposed as other candidates for the language of the IVC.

Subbranches include: ** Arthropodology biological discipline concerned with the study of arthropods, a phylum of animals that include the insects, arachnids, crustaceans and others that are characterized by the possession of jointed limbs.

Taxonomy seeAlso The phylogenetic placement of this phylum in the past has proved troublesome.

The chelicerae ("claw horns") that give the sub-phylum its name normally consist of three sections, and the claw is formed by the third section and a rigid extension of the second.

The Early Ordovician fossils may also represent forms that had already become significantly different from the original members of the phylum.

The history of biodiversity during the Phanerozoic (the last 540 million years), starts with rapid growth during the Cambrian explosion —a period during which nearly every phylum of multicellular organisms first appeared.

The name of the phylum relates to the Greek god of fertility, because their general shape and their extensible spiny introvert (eversible proboscis ) may recall the shape of a penis.