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.

Some groups within KINGDOM ANIMALIA

TAXONOMIC LEVEL   TAXON                              COMMON NAME and/or examples

KINGDOM           ANIMALIA  [= clade Metazoa]

      Phyla          sponges

      Clade          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

                        Phylum  molluscs

                            Class     gastropods                          snails, slugs, nudibranchs

                            Class     bivalves                               includes: clams, mussels, oysters, scallops

                            Class     cephalopods                        squids, octupuses, nautiluses, cuttlefish

                        Phylum  annelids                                   segmented worms

                            Class     oligochaetes                        includes earthworms

                            Class     polychaetes

                            Class                                                leeches 

 

                  Clade [Ecdysozoa]

Phylum  nematodes                               roundworms, includes pinworms

                        Phylum  arthropods

                            Class                                                horseshoe crabs    

                            Class     arachnids                             includes: spiders, daddy longlegs, ticks, mites, scorpions

                            Class     crustaceans             includes: sowbugs = pillbugs,

                                                                                    crabs, shrimp, lobsters, crayfish, barnacles

                            Class                                                millipedes

                            Class                                                centipedes

                            Class     insects                                 includes: dragonflies and damselflies; roaches; earwigs;

                                                                                    grasshoppers and crickets; bugs; termites; lice;

                                                                                    beetles; flies; wasps, bees, ants; moths and butterflies; fleas

                  Clade Deuterostomia

                        Phylum echinoderms

                            Class                                                sea stars

                            Class                                                brittle stars

                            Class                                                sea urchins, sand dollars

                            Class                                                sea lilies, crinoids

                            Class                                                sea cucumbers

                        Phylum  chordates                                includes lancelets, tunicates (includes sea squirts), craniates

                          Lancelets

                          Tunicates

                          Craniates

                              Hagfish

                              Vertebrates


VERTEBRATES

lampreys

jawed vertebrates = Gnathostomata

     chondrichthyes                     sharks, rays        

     osteichthyes                         ray-finned fishes, lobe-fins

      tetrapods

         amphibians

             urodeles                      salamanders, newts

             anurans                        frogs, toads

             apodans                      caecilians

         amniotes

               reptiles                                  traditionally, class Reptilia = turtles, crocodilians, lizards and snakes

                                                            but now Clade Reptilia = class Reptilia + dinosaurs and birds

                      turtles

                      lizards, snakes

                      [archosaurs]

                            crocodilians (alligators, crocodiles)

                             dinosaurs

                             birds  

               mammals 

                     monotremes      platypus, echidna (spiny anteater)

                     marsupials        includes: kangaroos, koalas, opposums

                     placental mammals [eutherians]

                             primates

                                 lemurs, tarsiers

                                 anthropoids        

                                      old world monkey, apes, humans,                            

                                      new world monkeys

 

HUMAN CLASSIFICATION

Kingdom     Animalia = Clade Metazoa

  Subkingdom/Clade  Eumetazoa

       Clade Bilateria

            Clade Deuterostomia

                Phylum      Chordata

                      Subphylum   Vertebrata

                            Class   Mammalia

                               Order   Primates

                                  Suborder Anthropoidea

                                    Family   Hominidae

                                      Genus   Homo

                                         Species   Homo sapiens