User:RichardWeiss/Classes

List of eukaryote classes There are 4 kingdoms within eukaryote cells

Kingdom Animalia

The relative number of species contributed to the total by each phylum of animals

Superb Fairy-wren, Malurus cyaneus

Differences between Deuterostomes and Protostomes

Yellow-winged darter, Sympetrum flaveolum

Pseudobiceros bedfordi, (Bedford's flatworm)

The use of love darts by the land snail Monachoides vicinus is a form of sexual selection

Subkingdom Parazoa

Pattersonia ulrichi Rauff, 1894; an Ordovician hexactinellid sponge from near Cincinnati, Ohio.

• Phylum Placozoa

One species Trichoplax adhaerens

• Phylum Porifera (Sponges)
  • • Class Calcarea
    • Class Hexactinellida
    • Class Demospongiae
    • Class Homoscleromorpha

Subkingdom Eumetazoa

Eumetazoa is a subkingdom which contains two unranked groups, the Radiata and the Bilateria, which itself contains one unranked group, Mesozoa and four superphyla, Deuterostomia, and the three Protostome superphyla Ecdysozoa, Platyzoa and Lophotrochozoa.

Radiata

• • Phylum Cnidaria
• Class Anthozoa - inc. corals
• Subphylum Medusozoa—jellyfish:
  • Cubozoa—box jellyfish, sea wasps
  • Hydrozoa—hydroids, hydra-like animals
  • Scyphozoa—true jellyfish
  • Staurozoa—stalked jellyfish
  • Polypodiozoa—parasites
• Subphylum Myxozoa—parasites
  • Malacosporea
  • Myxosporea
  • Phylum Ctenophora
    • Class Tentaculata
    • Class Nuda
    • Class Scleroctenophora †
  • Phylum Trilobozoa†
• c Trilobozoa

Bilateria

• Superphylum Deuterostomia
  • Phylum Chordata

Main article: List of chordate orders

• • Phylum Hemichordata
    • Class Enteropneusta (Acorn worms)
    • Class †Graptolithina
    • Class Planctosphaeroidea
    • Class Pterobranchia
  • Phylum Echinodermata

Main article: List of echinodermata orders

• • Phylum Xenacoelomorpha has one family Xenoturbellidae and one genus Xenoturbella
  • Phylum Vetulicolia †
• Protostomia
• Superphylum Ecdysozoa
  • Phylum Scalidophora (unranked)
  • Phylum Kinorhyncha

No class, 2 orders, called mud dragons, very common in mud or sand

• or Cyclorhagida
• or Homalorhagida
  • Phylum Loricifera

No class, one order Nanaloricida

• • Phylum Priapulida
    • Class Priapulimorpha
    • Class Halicryptomorpha
    • Class Seticoronaria
  • Phylum Nematoda

25,000 recorded species, estimated to be a million

• • • Class Chromadorea (disputed)
    • Class Enoplea (disputed)
    • Class Secernentea
  • Phylum Nematomorpha
    • Class Gordioidea
    • Class Nectonematoida
  • Phylum Panarthropoda (unranked)
  • Phylum Lobopodia
    • Class Dinocaridida †
    • Class Xenusia †
    • Class Siberion † and relatives
    • Class Hadranax †

Onychophora (in some usages) Tardigrada (in some usages)

• • Phylum Dinocarida †
  • Phylum Xenusia †
  • Phylum Onychophora
  • Phylum Tardigrada
  • Class Eutardigrada
  • Class Heterotardigrada
  • Class Mesotardigrada
  • Phylum Arthropoda

Main article: List of arthropod orders

• Superphylum Platyzoa
  • Phylum Platyhelminthes (flatworms
  • Class Cestoda
  • Class Monogenea
  • Class Trematoda
  • Class Turbellaria
  • Phylum Gastrotricha

No classes

• • Phylum Rotifera
  • Class Bdelloidea
  • Class Monogononta
  • Class Seisonidea
  • Phylum Acanthocephala
  • Class Archiacanthocephala
  • Class Eoacanthocephala
  • Class Palaeacanthocephala
  • Phylum Gnathostomulida

No classes

• • Phylum Micrognathozoa

Some dispute here with Micrognathozoa as the class and Limnognathia as the order

• • Phylum Cycliophora
• c Symbiida
• o Symbiidae

• Superphylum Lophotrochozoa
  • Phylum Sipuncula
• Class Phascolosomatidea
• Class Sipunculidea
  • Phylum Hyolitha †
  • Phylum Nemertea
• Class Anopla
• Class Enopla
  • Phylum Phoronida
• Class Phoronid
  • Phylum Bryozoa
    • Class Gymnolaemata
    • Class Phylactolaemata
    • Class Stenolaemata
  • Phylum Entoprocta

No classes, no orders, families Barentsiidae, Loxokalypodidae, Loxosomatidae, Pedicellinidae

• • Phylum Brachiopoda

This is problematic with no infobox info and a confusing box in the taxonomy section, how not to do it

• • Phylum Mollusca

Main article: List of mollusc orders

• • Phylum Annelida
    • Class Polychaeta
    • Class Clitellata
    • Class Machaeridia
    • Class Echiura

Disputed bilaterians

There is debate as to whether these Mesooa phyla and other phyla are bilaterians.

• • Phylum Orthonectida
  • Phylum Protostomia (unranked)
  • Phylum Proarticulata † Disputed if this is in or out of Bilateria.

Mesozoa

• • Phylum Orthonectida
  • Phylum Rhombozoa
  • Phylum Monoblastozoa

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• Phylum Acoelomorpha
• Phylum Chaetognatha mentioned in opening