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Taxonomy Notes

This document provides a classification of organisms into two main groups - Protostomia and Deuterostomia. Some key subgroups mentioned in Protostomia include molluscs such as snails, bivalves, and cephalopods. Arthropods are also called out. In Deuterostomia, subgroups include ambulacraria such as sea stars and sea urchins, as well as chordates including lampreys, cartilaginous fish, bony fish, amphibians, amniotes such as reptiles including lizards and snakes, birds, and mammals including marsupials and placentals.

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Taxonomy Notes

This document provides a classification of organisms into two main groups - Protostomia and Deuterostomia. Some key subgroups mentioned in Protostomia include molluscs such as snails, bivalves, and cephalopods. Arthropods are also called out. In Deuterostomia, subgroups include ambulacraria such as sea stars and sea urchins, as well as chordates including lampreys, cartilaginous fish, bony fish, amphibians, amniotes such as reptiles including lizards and snakes, birds, and mammals including marsupials and placentals.

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PROTOSTOMIA

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
ARTHROPODS <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

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
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
+ 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

+ Marmots & Groundhogs

+ Chipmunks

CASTORIMORPHA
+
Beavers

GEOMORPHA

+ Gliding Mice

+ Gophers

+ Kangaroo mice & rats


MYOMORPHA
+
Jumping mice

MUROIDEA
+ Dormice

+ Blind mole-rats

+ African climbing mice

CRICETIDAE

+ Voles, Lemmings & Muskrats

+ Hamsters

MURIDAE

+ Mice

+ Rats

+ Gerbils
PRIMATOMORPHA
+ Sugar Gliders &
Flying Lemurs
PRIMATES
+ Lemurs &
the Aye-aye
+ Tarsiers

ANTROPOIDEA

NEW WORLD MONKEYS

+ Marmosets & tamarins

+ Capuchins & Squirrel Monkeys

+ Night Monkeys

+ Titis, Sakis, and Uakaris

+ Howler Monkeys & Spider Monkeys

CATARRHINI

OLD WORLD MONKEYS

+ Talapoins, Guenons, patas monkeys

+ Macaques, mangabeys, kipunji, baboons, mandrill

+ Colobuses

+ Langurs, Lutungs, & Surilis

+ Doucs, Snub-nosed monkeys, Proboscis monkeys, Pig-tailed langur

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

+ Long winged bats

+ fisherman bats, mustached bats, ghost-faced bats, naked-backed bats

+ short-tailed bats, disk-winged bats, thumbless bat

+ New World leaf-nosed bats

+ free-tailed bats & sac-winged bats

+ sucker-footed bats, stealth-tailed bats, funnel-eared bats, vesper bats


(Common Bats)

FEREUUNGULATA
FERAE

+ Pangolins

CARNIVORA

FELIFORMIA

VIVERROIDEA

+ Viverrids ()

+ Hyaenas

+ Mongooses & Malagasy Carnivorans ()

FELIDAE
+ Bay cats (Asian golden cat, Marbled cat)

+ Caracal (African golden cat, Serval)

+ Panthers (Leopards, Lions, Jaguars, Tiger, snow leopard,


clouded leopards)

+ Ocelots

+ Lynx

+ Pumas, Cougars & Cheetahs

+ Leopard cats (fishing cat, flat-headed cat, rusty-spotted cat,


Pallas's cat)

TRUE CATS

+ Jungle cat, black-footed cat, sand cat

+ Chinese, African & European wildcat

+ Domestic Cats

CANIFORMA

CANINES

VULPES (True Foxes)

+ Island fox

+ Cape fox, kit fox, Arctic fox

+ Red fox, Corsac fox, Ruppell's fox, Tibetan sand fox

+ Bat-eared fox, Raccoon dogs, fennec fox, blanford's fox

ZORROS (South American Canids)

+ Bush dog, maned wolf, Falkland Island's wolf

+ Crab-eating fox, short-eared dog

+ hoary fox, Peruvian desert fox, Darwin's fox, Pampas fox,


Chilla, Andean fox)

TRUE CANINES

+ Jackals

+ Wild Dogs (Africa & Asia)

+ African Wolves

+ Coyotes

LUPINE
+ Gray Wolves

DOGS!!!

ARCTOIDEA

+ Seals & Walruses

+ Bears

MUSTELOIDEA

+ Raccoons & Red Pandas

+ Skunks

WEASEL-LIKE

+ Badgers & Ferret-Badgers

+ Tayra, Wolverine, Martens

+ Grisons & Polecats

+ Weasels, Stoats, Ermines, Ferrets, & Minks

OTTERS!

+ Clawless otters

+ Sea otters

+ American otters

+ Eurasian otters

+ Giant otters

UNGULATES

ODD-TOED UNGULATES

+ Tapirs

+ Rhinoseros

EQUIDAE

+ Domestic Horses

+ Wild Horses

+ Asses & Donkeys

+ Zebras
EVEN-TOED UNGULATES

+ Camels

SUINA

+ Deer-pig

+ Peccary

SUIDAE

+ Warthog, Giant Forest hog, Bushpig

+ Pygmy hog

PIGS

+ Domestic Pig

+ Bearded pigs

+ Warty pigs

+ Wild Boar

CETRUMINANTIA

+ Hippopotamus

CETACEANS

+ Mysticeti whales (Right, Bowhead, Minke, Gray, Humpback, Blue,


Fin)

+ Toothed whales (dolphins, orca, pilot whale, melon-headed


whale, tucuxi)

+ South American River dolphins

+ Indian River dolphins

+ Sperm Whales & Baiji

+ Beluga & Narwhal

+ Porpoises

+ Beaked, Bottlenose, Spade-toothed, and Strap-toothed Whales

RUMINANTS

+ Mouse deer (Tragulina)

HORN-BEARERS

+ Proghorn*

+ Giraffe
+ Musk Deer

TRUE DEER

+ Tufted deer, Reeve's muntjac

+ Chital, Indian hog deer, Barasingha

+ Fallow deer

+ Eld's deer & Pere David's deer

+ Rusa & Sambar

+ Red deer, Thorold's deer, Sika deer, Elk

NEW WORLD DEER

+ Moose & Eurasian elk

+ Roe deer & Water deer

RANGIFERINI

+ Reindeer (Caribou)

+ Mule deer, White-tailed deer, American


red brocket

+ Marsh deer, gray brocket, Southern


pudu, Taruca

BOVIDAE

BOODONTIA

+ Nayala

+ Eland

+ Kudu

+ Bongo, Bushbuck, & Sitatunga

BOVINI

+ Saola*

+ African buffalo, Anoa, Tamaraw, Water


buffalo

BISON

+ American Bison

+ European Bison

BOS
+ Banteng, Kouprey, Gaur

+ Cows & Bull (cattle)

+ Yak

AEGODONTIA

+ Antilope, Gazelles, Dibatag, Springbok

+ Impala

+ Oryxes

+ Gnu, Wildebeest, Hartebeest, Topi, Bontebok,


Blesbuck

CAPRINAE

+ Musk ox, Serows, and Gorals

+ Oreamnos, Takin, Chamois, Barbary


Sheep, Tahr, Blue sheep,

SHEEP

+ Argali

+ Domestic sheep

+ Bighorn, Snow & Dall sheep

+ Mouflon

+ Urial

GOATS

+ Tur

+ Markhor

+ Wild goat

+ Domestic goat

+ Ibex

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