Taxonomy Notes
Taxonomy Notes
SPIRALIA
+ Wheel animals (rotifers)
+ Arrow worms (aquatic predatory worms)
PLATYTROCHOZOA
+ Flatworms
MOLLUSCS
+ Chitons
+ Tusk shells
GASTROPODS
+ Shelled sea snails
+ Shell-less sea snails
PANPULMONATA
+ air-breathing aquatic snails
EUPULMONATA
+ Slugs
+ Snails
BIVALVES
+ Clams & Muscles
+ Oysters & the rest
CEPHALOPODS
+ Nautilus
COLEOIDEA
+ Squids & Cuttlefish
+ Octopuses & Vampire Squid
SEGMENTED WORMS
+ Bristle worms (aquatic)
+ Leeches
+ Earthworms
ECDYSOZOA
+ Penis worms & Mud dragons
+ Nematodes
+ Velvet Worms
TACTOPODA
+ Tardigrades
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DEUTEROSTOMIA
AMBULACRARIA
AMBULARARIA
+ Sea stars
+ Sea urchins
+ Sea cucumbers
+ Feather stars
+ Brittle stars
HEMICHORDATA
+ Acorn worms (aquatic worms)
+ Ocean tube worms
CHORDATA (Vertebrates)
+ Lampreys
CARTILAGINOUS
+ Sharks
+ Rays
BONE-BEARING
ACTINOPTERI
+ Sturgeons & paddlefish
+ Gars
+ Bowfin
ALL OTHER FISH ????????????????????????????????????????????
SARCOPTERYGII
+ Latimeria
+ Lungfishes
TETRAPODS
AMPHIBIANS
+ Caecilians (amphibious snakes)
BATRACHIA
+ Newts
+ Salamandars
+ Frogs
+ Toads
AMNIOTA
REPTILLIA
SQUAMATA
+ Little Lizards (skinks, "lizard")
SCALY BOIS
+ Snakes
+ Big Lizards (Iguana,
Chamelion, Dragon, etc.)
TESTUDINES
+ Turtles
+ Tortoises
ARCHOSAURIA
+ Crocodiles
AVES
+ Flightless Birds
FLYING BIRDS
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+ Songbirds
+ Ducks/Chickens
+ All other birds
MAMMALIA
+ Platypus
+ Echidna
MARSUPIALS
+ Opossums
+ Shrew Possums
AUSTRADELPHIA
+ Monito del Monte
POLYPROTODONTIA
+ Marsupial Moles
+ Bandicoots
+ Noombats
DASYURINAE
DASYURINI
+ Mulgaras
+ Kaluta
+ Kowari
+ Quoll
+ Dasyure
+ Dibbler
+ False
Antechinus
+ Tasmanian
Devil
PHASCOGALINI
+ Antechinus
+ Phascogale
SMINTHOPSINAE
+ Plaingale
SMINTHOPSINI
+ Kultarr
+ Ningaui
+ Dunnarts
DIPROTODONTIA
+ Koala bears
PHALANGERIFORMES
+ Australian
Possums
+ Cuscus
MACROPODIFORMES
PETAUROIDEA
+ Feather-
tailed glider & feather-tailed possum
+ Honey
possum/noolbenger
PETAURIDAE
+
Triok & striped possum
+
Gliders (northern, savanna, yellow-bellied, biak, sugar, mahogany, squirrel,
krefft's)
MACROPODOIDEA
+ Musky rat-
kangaroo
+ Bettongs,
potoroos, & rat-kangaroos
MACROPIDAE
+
Tree-kangaroos & Dingiso
+
Wallaby
+
Wallaroo
+
Kangaroo
+
Pademelon
PLACENTAL
ATLANTOGENATA
AFROTHERIA
AFROINSECTIPHILIA
+ Ardvark
+ Elephant Shrews
AFROSORCIDA
+ Golden
Moles
+ Tenrecs
PAENUGULATA
+ Hyraxes
TETHYTHERIA
+ Elephants
& Mammoths
+ Dugongs,
Sea Cows & Manatees
XENARTHRA
+ Armadillos
PILOSA
+ Anteaters
SLOTHS!
+ Two-toed
+ Three-toed
+ Giant
Ground sloths
+ Giant
Aquatic sloths
BOREOEUTHERIA
EUARCHONTOGLIRES
+ Treeshrews
GLIRES
LAGOMORPHS
+ Pika
+ Rabbits &
Hares
RODENTIA
+ Porcupines
& Guinea Pigs
SCIUROMORPHIA
+
Ground Squirrels
+
Giant & Pygmy Squirrels
TRUE
SQUIRRELS
+ Tree Squirels
+ Flying Squirrels
MARMOTINI
+ Prarie dogs
+ Chipmunks
CASTORIMORPHA
+
Beavers
GEOMORPHA
+ Gliding Mice
+ Gophers
MUROIDEA
+ Dormice
+ Blind mole-rats
CRICETIDAE
+ Hamsters
MURIDAE
+ Mice
+ Rats
+ Gerbils
PRIMATOMORPHA
+ Sugar Gliders &
Flying Lemurs
PRIMATES
+ Lemurs &
the Aye-aye
+ Tarsiers
ANTROPOIDEA
+ Night Monkeys
CATARRHINI
+ Colobuses
HOMINOIDEA
+ Gibbons Apes
GREATER APES
+ Orangutans
+ Gorilla
HOMININI
+ Chimpanzees
+ Australopithecines (Neanderthal)
+ Humans*****
LAURASIATHERIA
EULIPOTYPHLA
+ Moles
+ Hedgehogs
& Shrews
SCROTIFERA
BATS!
+
Megabats (Fruit bats)
+
Bumblebee bat, Old World leaf-nosed bat, False Vampire bat, Horseshoe bat, Orange
nose-leafed bat, mouse-tailed bat
YANGOCHIROPTERA
FEREUUNGULATA
FERAE
+ Pangolins
CARNIVORA
FELIFORMIA
VIVERROIDEA
+ Viverrids ()
+ Hyaenas
FELIDAE
+ Bay cats (Asian golden cat, Marbled cat)
+ Ocelots
+ Lynx
TRUE CATS
+ Domestic Cats
CANIFORMA
CANINES
+ Island fox
TRUE CANINES
+ Jackals
+ African Wolves
+ Coyotes
LUPINE
+ Gray Wolves
DOGS!!!
ARCTOIDEA
+ Bears
MUSTELOIDEA
+ Skunks
WEASEL-LIKE
OTTERS!
+ Clawless otters
+ Sea otters
+ American otters
+ Eurasian otters
+ Giant otters
UNGULATES
ODD-TOED UNGULATES
+ Tapirs
+ Rhinoseros
EQUIDAE
+ Domestic Horses
+ Wild Horses
+ Zebras
EVEN-TOED UNGULATES
+ Camels
SUINA
+ Deer-pig
+ Peccary
SUIDAE
+ Pygmy hog
PIGS
+ Domestic Pig
+ Bearded pigs
+ Warty pigs
+ Wild Boar
CETRUMINANTIA
+ Hippopotamus
CETACEANS
+ Porpoises
RUMINANTS
HORN-BEARERS
+ Proghorn*
+ Giraffe
+ Musk Deer
TRUE DEER
+ Fallow deer
RANGIFERINI
+ Reindeer (Caribou)
BOVIDAE
BOODONTIA
+ Nayala
+ Eland
+ Kudu
BOVINI
+ Saola*
BISON
+ American Bison
+ European Bison
BOS
+ Banteng, Kouprey, Gaur
+ Yak
AEGODONTIA
+ Impala
+ Oryxes
CAPRINAE
SHEEP
+ Argali
+ Domestic sheep
+ Mouflon
+ Urial
GOATS
+ Tur
+ Markhor
+ Wild goat
+ Domestic goat
+ Ibex