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What is a phylum?

What is a phylum? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  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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Horsehair or gordian worms are unusual invertebrates in the phylum Nematomorpha.
Lobsters, crabs, prawns, bay bugs, freshwater and marine crayfish all belong to the phylum Arthropoda, the group which also contains insects.
The other diploblastic phylum, the Ctenophora, surprisingly, has not been reported to have septate junctions.
Ferns and fern allies are cryptogamous plants of the phylum Polypodiophyta.
Bryozoa is the only major phylum that does not have a fossil record in the Cambrian.
The Entoprocta is also a small phylum and the oldest fossil record is from the Upper Jurassic.

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