Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia

Phylogeny

Branch-based clade

Ref: A. Wallberg et al., 2004: 560 ("most inclusive group").

Defined by included taxon (and all taxa more closely related to it than to the excluded taxon)

Bilateria ([unranked]) Hatschek, 1888		Ref: A. Wallberg et al., 2004: 560.
Cnidaria ([unranked]) Hatschek, 1888		Ref: A. Wallberg et al., 2004: 560.

Defined by excluded taxon

Ctenophora ([unranked]) Eschscholtz, 1829

Ref: A. Wallberg et al., 2004: 560.

Current position

Animalia (Kingdom) Linnaeus, 1758

Ref: G. Giribet & G.D. Edgecombe, 2019: 168 (fig. 1a); Giribet & Edgecombe, 2019: fig. 1a. [inferred]

Alternative positions

Metazoa ([unranked]) Haeckel 1874

Ref: G. Giribet & G.D. Edgecombe, 2019: 168 (fig. 1a); Giribet & Edgecombe, 2019: fig. 1a.

Historical positions

Metazoa ([unranked]) Haeckel 1874

Ref: G. Giribet & G.D. Edgecombe, 2019: 168 (fig. 1c).

Number of Subtaxa

2025

Available in Systema Naturae 2000

31p;88c;548o;6139f;80,463g;213,119s;28,288ss;471v;1; ‡2o;20f;118g;514s;110ss;1v; †2p;64c;502o;3074f;12,528g;5324s;107ss;2v;104