An obsolete zoological term referring to a group of animals characterized by well-developed or truly segmented bodies.
From Greek eu- (good, well) + poly- (many) + zoa (animals, plural of zoon). An outdated 19th-century classification term.
Eupolyzoa is one of those wonderful dead scientific words—it shows how zoologists in the 1800s kept creating new categories as they discovered new creatures and trying to organize life differently each decade.
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