phylum

How To Use phylum In A Sentence

• Most fungi of the Phylum Chytridiomycota break down vegetable matter in aquatic systems, but some are parasitic on diatoms or insects.
• Here we describe trans-splicing in the freshwater planarian Schmidtea mediterranea, a free-living member of the phylum Platyhelminthes.
• He developed the system whereby every known living creature is assigned to a kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.
• Though they might superficially look like just another kind of mollusc, brachiopods belonged to an entirely different phylum, one that flourished during the past but has been reduced to just a handful of species today. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
• A chordate marine animal of the subphylum Urochordata; a tunicate.
• Insects were members of the phylum arthropoda – creatures having hard outer skeletons and jointed legs. Deception Point
• The only modern phylum with an adequate fossil record to appear after the Cambrian was the phylum Bryozoa, which is not known before the early Ordovician. Continuation…
• Going on down the hierarchy are phylum, subphylum, class, subclass, order, family, genus, species.
• In other schemes the phylum Arthropoda is retained and the major taxa are given subphylum or class status.
• The starfish along with sea urchins and relatives including feather stars, brittle stars, basket stars, sea daisies, sea lilies, and sea cucumbers make up the Phylum Echinodermata.