Porocephalida Heymons 1935

• Body symmetry

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/body_symmetry
  • Definition: overall repetitive or reflective pattern in the body of one individual of this taxon. eg: bilateral symmetry, rotational symmetry, radial symmetry

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  bilaterally symmetric

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324
  • Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves

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• cellularity

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001992
  • Definition: An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting cells. [ PATOC:GVG ]

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  multicellular

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993
  • Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]

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• has host

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002454
  • Attribution: From OBO Relation Ontology

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  tetrapods

  • URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q19159
  • Definition: superclass of the first four-limbed vertebrates and their descendants. https://eol.org/pages/46557930

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• number of public records in bold

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/NumberPublicRecordsInBOLD
  • Definition: number of records in this clade in the Barcode Of Life Database (BOLD)

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• supporting structures and enclosures

  • URI: http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/SupportingStructuresEnclosures
  • Definition: Hard framework, internal or external, which supports and protects softer parts of plant, animal or unicellular organism, and to which muscles usually attach in animals, includes skeletons (derived from Lawrence, 2005).
  • Attribution: http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/wiki/Traits:SupportingStructuresEnclosures Lawrence, E. (ed.) (2005) Henderson's dictionary of Biology (13th edition). London, United Kingdom: Pearson Education Limited.

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  exoskeleton

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0006611
  • Definition: Exoskeleton or shell, including those of mollusks, turtles, insects and crustaceans

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• trophic guild

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TrophicGuild
  • Definition: A group of species that exploit the same food resources, and/or use the same feeding or foraging methods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_(ecology)

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  endoparasite

  • URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q9300235
  • Definition: parasite that lives within the body or cells of its host

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Porocephalida includes 4 children:

• Linguatulidae
• Porocephalidae
• Sebekidae
• Subtriquetridae
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