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Definition of Subphyla
1. subphylum [n] - See also: subphylum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subphyla
Literary usage of Subphyla
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"The Vermes form a polymorphic group of animals, the eight subphyla of which do not
... The phylum contains 8 subphyla. Key to the subphyla of Vermes: a, ..."
2. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1915)
"... of evolutionary progress by stating that each group is highly polyphyletic,
consisting of numerous subphyla evolving along more or less parallel lines. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... in the Arthropoda, and in 1894 Kingsley divided the group into three subphyla,
Laurie and Pocock also considering that the group is polyphyletic. ..."
4. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"The Protozoa may be grouped under the following subphyla: Subphylum I. Sarcodina.
— Moving by means of temporary extensions of the protoplasm, ..."
5. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"In many respects the chordates differ widely from one another, and it is customary
to separate them into four subphyla : — (1) The ENTEROPNEUSTA (Gr. ..."
6. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"... of the Oligocene and Upper Miocene genera and to trace the descent of the
various phyla and subphyla much more exactly than has hitherto been possible. ..."
7. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1903)
"... the Crustacea " had an ancestor resembling the Nauplius of the Phyllopoda or
the Copepoda." In 1894'he divided the Arthropoda into three subphyla: I. ..."
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