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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-secreting mantle), Angiosperma (flowering plants),
and so on. A number of traditional Phyla - e.g. Arthropoda, Protozoa,
etc - are probably invalid (polyphyletic). |
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