For the tree, see Pinus radiata

The Radiata are the radially symmetric animals of the Eumetazoa subregnum. The term Radiata has had various meanings in the history of classification. It has been applied to the echinoderms, although the echinoderms are members of the Bilateria, because they exhibit bilateral symmetry in their devolping stages. The radiata are also considered diploblastic, meaning they have 2 primary germ layers: endoderm and ectoderm. Thomas Cavalier-Smith in 1983 defined a subkingdom called Radiata consisting of sponges, coelenterates and placozoans, that is, all the animals that are not in Bilateria. Cavalier-Smith's classification put the phyla Porifera, Myxozoa, Placozoa, Cnidaria and Ctenophora in Radiata. The Five Kingdom classification of Lynn Margulis and K. V. Schwartz keeps only Cnidaria and Ctenophora in Radiata. Cladistic classifications do not recognize Radiata as a clade.

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