Natura - nature
Status: extant
actualia - actual entities
Status: extant
Mundus Plinius - physical world
Status: extant
naturalia - natural bodies
Status: extant
[crown] Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
Status: extant
Clade neomura Cavalier-Smith, 1987
Period: Pre-Ediacaran - Present (4567 Ma - present); Status: extant
Domain Eukaryota Chatton, 1925 - eukaryotes
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Status: extant
Clade discaria Cavalier-Smith, 2021
Status: extant
Clade dorsates Cavalier-Smith, 2021
Status: extant
Clade podiates Cavalier-Smith, 2012
Period: Pre-Ediacaran - Present (4567 Ma - present); Status: extant
[crown] Clade Amorphea Adl et al. 2012 [Simpson, Medina & Adl 2020]
Status: extant
[crown] Clade Obazoa Brown, Sharpe, Silberman, Heiss, Lang, Simpson & Roger 2013
Status: extant
[crown] Clade Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith 1987 [Simpson & Medina 2020] - animal-fungal clade
Status: extant
Superkingdom Holozoa Lang, O'Kelly, Nerad, Gray & Burger, 2002
Status: extant
Clade filozoa Shalchian-Tabrizi, Minge, Espelund, Orr, Ruden, Jakobsen & Cavalier-Smith, 2008
Status: extant
Kingdom Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Status: extant
Clade Planulozoa Wallberg, Thollesson, Farris & Jondelius 2004
Status: extant
Subkingdom Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 - bilaterians
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Status: extant
Clade Nephrozoa Jondelius, Ruiz-Trillo, Baguñà & Riutort 2002
Status: extant
Infrakingdom Deuterostomia Grobben, 1908
Status: extant
Phylum Chordata Bateson, 1885 - chordates
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Status: extant
Subphylum Vertebrata Cuvier, 1812 - vertebrates
Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Status: extant
Myopterygii - myopterygians
Status: extant
Superclass Gnathostomata Gegenbaur, 1874 - jawed vertebrates
Status: extant
Grade Chondrichthiomorphi
Status: extant
Class Chondrichthyes Huxley, 1880 - cartilaginous fishes
Distribution: Pacific (marine); Status: extant
Subclass Elasmobranchii Bonaparte, 1838 - shark-like fishes
Distribution: Pacific; Status: extant
Infraclass Euselachii Hay, 1902 - sharks and rays, and related fossils
Distribution: Pacific; Status: extant
Division Neoselachii Compagno, 1977
Status: extant
Subdivision Selachii - sharks
Status: extant
Superorder Galeomorphi (Compagno, 1973)
Status: extant
Order Carcharhiniformes Compagno, 1973 - ground sharks
Distribution: Atlantic, Indian & Pacific Ocean (marine, brackish & freshwater); Status: extant
1 Family Scyliorhinidae Gill, 1862 - cat sharks
Distribution: Atlantic, Indian & Pacific Ocean (marine); Status: extant
2 Family Proscylliidae Fowler, 1941 - finback catsharks
Distribution: Atlantic, Indian & Pacific Ocean (marine); Status: extant
3 Family Pseudotriakidae Gill, 1893 - false catsharks
Distribution: Atlantic, Indian & Pacific Ocean (marine); Status: extant
4 Family Leptochariidae Gray, 1851 [monotypic] - barbeled houndsharks
Distribution: Atlantic: off Africa (marine: coastal); Status: extant
5 Family Triakidae Gray, 1851 - houndsharks
Distribution: Atlantic, Indian & Pacific Ocean (marine); Status: extant
6 Family Hemigaleidae Hasse, 1879 - weasel sharks
Distribution: Atlantic, Indian & Pacific Ocean (marine: coastal); Status: extant
7 Family Carcharhinidaeᵀ Jordan & Evermann, 1896 - requiem sharks
Distribution: Atlantic, Indian & Pacific Ocean (marine & freshwater); Status: extant
8 Family Sphyrnidae Gill, 1872 - hammerhead sharks
Distribution: Atlantic, Indian & Pacific Ocean (marine & brackish); Status: extant