Neoophora

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”) + ᾠόν (ōión, “egg”) + -φόρος (-phóros, “bearing”), in reference to their ectolecithal eggs.

Proper noun

Neoophora

1. A taxonomic class within the phylum Platyhelminthes – certain flatworms.

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Spiralia - superphylum; Platyhelminthes - phylum; Rhabditophora - subphylum

Hyponyms

• (class): Eulecithophora (Adiaphanida, Rhabdocoela) - infraclasses in Eulecithophora) Neodermata (Cestoda, Monogenea, Trematoda - infraclasses in Neodermata) - subclasses

References

• Neoophora on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rhabditophora on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• 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. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248