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