How to Use phylum in a Sentence

phylum

noun

• Then there are the bryozoans, a phylum of animals all its own.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2020
• The siphonophores are an order of organisms in the Cnidaria phylum that look like lumps or spirals of string.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2023
• And a new phylum is just what Higgins and Kristensen had on the lab table before them.
  — Adrienne Mason, Smithsonian, 2 Mar. 2018
• The team recorded a total of 32 species from six phyla in this faunal region, most of which new to science.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
• Our phylum is Chordata, which includes any animal with a spinal cord.
  — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 12 May 2023
• The scientists named the phylum mirusviruses, for the Latin word mirus, meaning surprising or strange.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2023
• Think of loungewear as the kingdom of clothing, whereas sweats are a phylum, and a Juicy Couture-revival velour suit is a species.
  — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2020
• And discovering an organism different enough to warrant its own phylum comes only to a rare few.
  — Adrienne Mason, Smithsonian, 2 Mar. 2018
• The pair decided to build a museum dedicated to the phylum of spineless sea creatures.
  — Amanda Arnold, Smithsonian, 21 Dec. 2017
• Such hydrozoans form a subgroup of Cnidaria, a phylum whose members also include jellyfish and coral.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 3 May 2023
• An arm and a leg Jellyfish are cnidarians, a phylum of soft-bodied invertebrates.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2024
• Among the parasitic infections that affect humans, a large portion are caused by various species of nematodes, a phylum of worms.
  — Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
• The phylum has existed for at least 520 million years, through multiple mass extinctions.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 14 July 2017
• Within that clade, most of these species are from the class Clostridia in the phylum Firmicutes, a phylum of bacteria important to gut health.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2024
• This phylum of animals includes insects, crabs, shrimp, scorpions, spiders, and centipedes among others.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 Aug. 2023
• Certain types of microbes in the soil seemed to speed plant flowering time, the team found, while others, such as members of the Proteobacteria phylum, slowed it down.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 June 2015
• Millions of years ago, animals in this phylum—including starfish, brittle stars, sea cucumbers and sea urchins—were all bilateral.
  — Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023
• Above the size of L rotifers, however, farmers switch phylum and feed their charges crustaceans called brine shrimps, the smallest of which clock in at 400 microns.
  — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2021
• The animals are the first transgenic echinoderms, the phylum that includes starfish, sea cucumbers and other marine animals.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
• Parasitic life styles exist in all major animal groups, with the single exception of echinoderms, the phylum containing starfish and sea urchins.
  — Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
• The California lake is just one of several extreme locales where researchers have spotted nematodes, the phylum all eight worm species belong to.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 27 Sep. 2019
• These phyla all feature specific sets of anatomical structures that distinguish them from the others, and only a few of these structures are included in more than one phylum.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2022
• For the smallest fry these are often rotifers, a phylum of tiny animals discovered in the late 17th century by early microscopists.
  — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2021
• That related phylum within the animal kingdom includes lobsters, crabs, spiders and many insects with exoskeletons.
  — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2023
• Tardigrades is its phylum within the Ecdysozoa superphylum, which includes insects, crustaceans, arachnids and more.
  — Fox News, 14 July 2017
• Cephalopods, which include octopi, cuttlefish, and squid, belong to the Mollusca phylum, are chiefly identified by their tentacles.
  — Colin Dickey, New Republic, 21 Sep. 2017
• Horsehair worms, part of the taxonomic phylum Nematomorpha, are parasitic worms that resemble long thin strands of hair (hence their nickname).
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 27 Sep. 2017
• The majority of these alterations occurred within the phylum Bacillota — a gut bacteria group known for digestion and overall gut health.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
• The hundreds of species belonging to the phylum Tardigrada are so hardy that many could be here long after other life on Earth has perished, enduring as long as the sun continues to shine.
  — NBC News, 14 Oct. 2019
• Even in the face of extinction, existing body plans—think of higher taxonomic categories such as phylum, class, or order—rarely disappear entirely.
  — Leigh Phillips, The Atlantic, 9 July 2024