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  2. List of chordate orders - Wikipedia

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    Spotted gar, Lepisosteus oculatus This article contains a list of all of the classes and orders that are located in the Phylum Chordata.. The subphyla Tunicata and Vertebrata are in the unranked Olfactores clade, while the subphylum Cephalochordata is not.

  3. Chordate - Wikipedia

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    A chordate (/ ˈ k ɔːr d eɪ t / KOR-dayt) is a deuterostomal bilaterian animal belonging to the phylum Chordata (/ k ɔːr ˈ d eɪ t ə / kor-DAY-tə).All chordates possess, at some point during their larval or adult stages, five distinctive physical characteristics (synapomorphies) that distinguish them from other taxa.

  4. Human taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    Phylum: Chordata: Class: Mammalia: Order: ... Human taxonomy is the classification of ... A late example of an academic authority proposing that the human ...

  5. Mammal classification - Wikipedia

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    Mammalia is a class of animal within the phylum Chordata. Mammal classification has been through several iterations since Carl Linnaeus initially defined the class. No classification system is universally accepted; McKenna & Bell (1997) and Wilson & Reader (2005) provide useful recent compendiums. [1]

  6. Taxonomic rank - Wikipedia

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    The major ranks: domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species, applied to the red fox, Vulpes vulpes. The hierarchy of biological classification's eight major taxonomic ranks. Intermediate minor rankings are not shown.

  7. Lancelet - Wikipedia

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    The animals are edible and harvested in some parts of the world. They are eaten both fresh, tasting like herring, and as a food additive in dry form after being roasted in oil. [ citation needed ] When their gonads start to ripen in the spring it affects their flavor, making them taste bad during their breeding season.

  8. Rodent - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 February 2025. Order of mammals Rodent Temporal range: Late Paleocene – recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Capybara Springhare Golden-mantled ground squirrel North American beaver House mouse Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Mirorder ...

  9. Kingdom (biology) - Wikipedia

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    The classification of living things into animals and plants is an ancient one. Aristotle (384–322 BC) classified animal species in his History of Animals, while his pupil Theophrastus (c. 371 –c. 287 BC) wrote a parallel work, the Historia Plantarum, on plants. [7]