Animal groups (taxa): part 1 of 2

Note: I will not test you on terms in brackets or on whether a given name is referred to as a clade, lineage, phylum, subphylum, class, order or suborder. You should recognize a genus, species, and animal family by the way they are written. A genus, e.g., Homo, is a single word that is capitalized and italicized. A species, e.g., Homo sapiens, is two words, both of which are italicized and with the first word capitalized but the second not capitalize. Animal families, e.g., Hominidae, end in “idae”.

The indentations indicate that the indented taxon (group) is part of the less indented taxon immediately above, e.g., trematodes are within phylum Platyhelminthes.

KINGDOM ANIMALIA through rotifers

TAXONOMIC LEVEL TAXON COMMON NAME and/or examples

KINGDOM ANIMALIA [= clade Metazoa] Phyla sponges

Clade nonsponges [= Eumetazoa]

Phylum cnidarians includes: Hydra, Portugese-man-o-wars, jellyfish, corals, sea anemones

Clade Bilataria

Clade [Lophotrochozoa]

Phylum Platyhelminthes flatworms

Class turbellarians includes: planarians

Class trematodes flukes, includes blood flukes

Class cestodes tapeworms

Phylum rotifers

HUMAN CLASSIFICATION Kingdom Animalia [= Clade Metazoa] [Subkingdom/Clade nonsponges = Eumetazoa]

Clade Bilateria

Clade deuterostomes

Phylum Chordata

Subphylum Vertebrata

Class Mammalia

Order Primates

Suborder Anthropoidea Family Hominidae Genus Homo

Species Homo sapiens

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