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Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species |
Referred to as 'Division" in the case of Plants and Bacteria. In the standard Linnean system (and taxonomic systems based on it), a Phylum is the taxonomic category between Kingdom and Class. A phylum is a major ranking of organisms, defined according to the most basic body-parts shared by that group. e.g. Chordata (animals with a notochord - vertebrates and others), Arthropoda (animals witha jointed exoskeleton) Mollusca (animals with a shell-secrteing mantle), Angiosperma (flowering plants), and so on. A number of traditional Phyla - e.g. Arthropoda, Protozoa, etc - are probbaly invalidl (polyphyletic). |
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