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What is a phylum?

What is a phylum? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank
  2. (linguistics) A large division of possibly related languages, or a major language family which is not subordinate to another.
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The phylum Cnidaria comprises approximately 10,000 species of tentacle-bearing aquatic animals.
The Entoprocta is also a small phylum and the oldest fossil record is from the Upper Jurassic.
Bryozoa is the only major phylum that does not have a fossil record in the Cambrian.
Technically an invertebrate, amphioxus is classified in subphylum Protochordata, phylum Chordata.
The other diploblastic phylum, the Ctenophora, surprisingly, has not been reported to have septate junctions.
Here we describe trans-splicing in the freshwater planarian Schmidtea mediterranea, a free-living member of the phylum Platyhelminthes.

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