Cœlomatan.
/siːˈləʊmətə/ Zoology.
With plural agreement. The name given by Ray Lankester to the higher of his two subdivisions of Enterozoa (= Metazoa n.), including all of these that have a cœlome or body-cavity, distinct from the enteric or intestinal cavity (the other subdivision being that of the Coelenterata n.). It comprises all the more highly developed animals, including Vermes.
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Cœlomata1877
1877 E. Ray Lankester in Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. XVII. 441.
1883 E. Ray Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 633/1 The Cœlomata, one of the two great grades..into which the higher animals, or Enterozoa as distinguished from the Protozoa, are divided.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 333 The Coelomata include the phyla Chordata, Mollusca, Arthropoda, Echinodermata, together with Vermes.
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