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Flatworms and roundworms, two phyla with more than 20,000 species each, have no emoji at all.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2023

Of the nearly 600 genomes characterized, microbes represented 50 distinct phyla and 18 candidate phyla.

From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2023

"There are 34 different animal phyla living on this planet and in over roughly 600 million years they have all come up with different solutions to the same fundamental biological problems," Lowe said.

From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2023

Lophotrochozoa is named for two structural features, each common to certain phyla within the clade.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

From the Wasatch onward, the development of many phyla may be traced in almost unbroken continuity, though from time to time the record is somewhat obscured by migrations from the Old World and South America.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)