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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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B A key to an animal phylum of your choice.
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But what holds true within one phylum may well hold true across them.
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Molluscs Molluscs belong to the largest phylum in the animal kingdom and are a very varied group of animals.
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Once a definitive picture of it was produced, it was given its own phylum .
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One whole phylum of creatures, the rotifers, seem to fit into no known evolutionary tree at all.
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The phylum at the present is dominated by its more advanced members - the vertebrates.
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The geological record of the phylum is accordingly excellent.
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To identify any animal properly, the first stage is to determine to which phylum it belongs.