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Definition of Phoronidea
1. Noun. Small phylum of wormlike marine animals.
Group relationships: Animal Kingdom, Animalia, Kingdom Animalia
Member holonyms: Phoronid
Generic synonyms: Phylum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phoronidea
Literary usage of Phoronidea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"Phoronidea This group consists of a single genus, Phoronis (Gr. Phoronis, name
of a king, Fig. 125), containing worm-like animals which live in the sand, ..."
2. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"Phoronidea. ALTHOUGH investigators early drew attention to the many structural
features in which the genus Phoronis ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Phoronidea, a zoological order, containing a single genus Phoronis, which ¡s
known to be of practically world-wide distribution, while there arc many ..."
4. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1906)
"... MESOZOA, HEMICHORDATA, Phoronidea. Verm. L-hthi/dium crassum n. sp., figg.,
Asuncion, drying banks of Paraguay R., ... HEMICHORDATA and Phoronidea. ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"... Pterobranchia and Phoronidea, each of which has been considered by some as a
class, or, at least, far removed from the others; the second is universally ..."
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