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Encyclopedia entry: phylum
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phylum
In the systematic categorization of living organisms, a major group within the animal
kingdom
. It comprises a diverse group of organisms ...
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Article: New phylum found residing on lobsters. (Danish researchers ...
Science News;
December 16, 1995 ;
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... ... taxonomic groups called phyla, claim Peter Funch and ... it to an entirely new phylum, which they call Cycliophora ... what appears to be a new phylum of metazoans has to be ... Scientists often argue over phylum designations. For example ... nearly resembles the phyla Ectoprocta and Entoprocta ...
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