Statistics for Animal Phyla

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Meaning	Phylum	Comments	% Correct
Jointed foot	Arthropoda	Includes spiders and shrimp	88%
With a cord	Chordata	Includes the blue whale and peregrine falcon	82%
Little ring	Annelida	Includes earthworms and leeches	78%
Soft	Mollusca	Squid and snails	78%
Stinging nettle	Cnidaria	Jellyfish, sea anemones	77%
Pore bearer	Porifera	Sponges	73%
Spiny skin	Echinodermata	Includes starfish and sea cucumbers	66%
Thread like	Nematoda	Roundworms	64%
Flat worms	Platyhelminthes	Flatworms	64%
Wheel bearer	Rotifera	May be free-swimming or sessile	34%
Slow step	Tardigrada	Also known as water bears and moss piglets	33%
Half cord	Hemichordata	Acorn worms	30%
Arm foot	Brachiopoda	Commonly called "lamp shells"	28%
Comb bearer	Ctenophora	Predators propelled by cilia	28%
Moss animals	Bryozoa	Filter-feeding aquatic invertebrates	21%
Little priapus	Priapulida	Marine worm	16%
A sea nymph	Nemertea	Ribbon worms, once specimen of which was estimated at 177' long	14%
Claw bearer	Onychophora	Segmented with multiple pairs of legs	11%
Longhair jaw	Chaetognatha	Arrow worms, a major component of plankton worldwide	9%
Flat animals	Placozoa	One known species, the trichoplax	9%
Thorny headed worms	Acanthocephala	Parasites	7%
Wheel carrying	Cycliophora	Three species discovered since 1995	7%
Corset bearer	Loricifera	22 described species	7%
Inside anus	Entoprocta	Sessile aquatic animals	6%
Tiny jaw animals	Micrognathozoa	One known species discovered in Greenland in 1994	6%
Without gut	Acoelomorpha	Very small, flattened worms, almost entirely marine	4%
Lozenge animal	Rhombozoa	Tiny parasites that live in cephalopods	4%
Small tube	Sipuncula	Possibly a subgroup of the earthworm phylum	4%
Jaw orifice	Gnathostomulida	Microscopic marine animals	3%
Zeus's mistress	Phoronida	Filter-feeding marine animals	3%
Straight swim	Orthonectida	Microscopic parasites of marine invertebrates	2%
Hair stomach	Gastrotrichia	Microscopic freshwater and marine animals	1%
Thread form	Nematophora	Called "Gordian worms" because they often tie themselves in knots	1%
Motion snout	Kinorhynca	Tiny invertebrates also known as mud dragons	0%
Strange flatworm	Xenoturbilleda	Two marine species	0%