subphylum

NOUN
  1. (biology) a taxonomic group ranking between a phylum and a class
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How To Use subphylum In A Sentence

  • Now a team of paleontologists has found a fossilized arthropod they're betting is an early member of the subphylum Crustacea.
  • Going on down the hierarchy are phylum, subphylum, class, subclass, order, family, genus, species.
  • A barnacle is a type of arthropod belonging to infraclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is hence related to crabs and lobsters. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • In particular, there is a significant phylogenetic gap in information for the urochordates, a subphylum near the invertebrate-vertebrate transition.
  • Technically an invertebrate, amphioxus is classified in subphylum Protochordata, phylum Chordata.
  • All members of this subphylum have chelicerae and pedipalps as their first and second prosomal appendages. Arthropoda
  • Going on down the hierarchy are phylum, subphylum, class, subclass, order, family, genus, species.
  • I'm animal, my phylum is chordata, my subphylum is vertebrate, my class is mammals, sublass theria, infraclass eutheria, within that I'm a primate, and within that I'm human.
  • To give the idea of a subphylum, the entire Vertebrata are in the Linnean arrangement a subphylum of the phylum Chordata.
  • Mammals are then grouped with the classes of other backboned animals, such as reptiles, into a "subphylum," Vertebrata, which is part of the "phylum" Chordata, containing all animals which have a nerve chord at some time in their life cycle. Lazarus, Elvis, zombies and Jimmy Hoffa
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