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{{short description|High level taxonomic rank for organisms sharing a similar body plan}}
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In biology, a '''phylum''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|f|aɪ|l|əm}}; ]: '''phyla''') is a level of classification or ] below ] and above ]. Traditionally, in ] the term ] has been used instead of phylum, although the ] accepts the terms as equivalent.<ref name="ICN">{{Cite book |year=2012 |editor-last=McNeill |editor-first=J. |displayeditors=etal|title=International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Melbourne Code), Adopted by the Eighteenth International Botanical Congress Melbourne, Australia, July 2011 |edition=electronic |publisher=International Association for Plant Taxonomy |url=http://www.iapt-taxon.org/nomen/main.php?page=art3 |accessdate=2017-05-14 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/phylum|accessdate=2008-10-04|edition=third|year=2005|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company|chapter=Life sciences
|quote=Phyla in the plant kingdom are frequently called divisions.}}</ref><ref name="Berg2007">{{cite book|last=Berg|first=Linda R.|title=Introductory Botany: Plants, People, and the Environment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I71WWH9ZmfsC&pg=PA15|accessdate=2012-07-23|edition=2|date=2 March 2007 |publisher=Cengage Learning|isbn=9780534466695|page=15}}</ref> Depending on definitions, the animal kingdom ] or Metazoa contains approximately 32 phyla, the plant kingdom ] contains about 14, and the fungus kingdom ] contains about 8 phyla. Current research in ] is uncovering the relationships between phyla, which are contained in larger ], like ] and ].{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}


In ], a '''phylum''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|f|aɪ|l|əm}}; {{plural form}}: '''phyla''') is a level of classification or ] below ] and above ]. Traditionally, in ] the term ] has been used instead of phylum, although the ] accepts the terms as equivalent.<ref name="ICN">{{Cite book |year=2012 |editor-last=McNeill |editor-first=J. |display-editors=etal |title=International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Melbourne Code), Adopted by the Eighteenth International Botanical Congress Melbourne, Australia, July 2011 |edition=electronic |publisher=International Association for Plant Taxonomy |url=http://www.iapt-taxon.org/nomen/main.php?page=art3 |access-date=2017-05-14 |archive-date=10 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010230658/https://www.iapt-taxon.org/nomen/main.php?page=art3 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy|chapter-url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/phylum|access-date=2008-10-04|edition=third|year=2005|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company|chapter=Life sciences
== General description ==
|quote=Phyla in the plant kingdom are frequently called divisions.}}</ref><ref name="Berg2007">{{cite book|last=Berg|first=Linda R.|title=Introductory Botany: Plants, People, and the Environment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I71WWH9ZmfsC&pg=PA15|access-date=2012-07-23|edition=2|date=2 March 2007 |publisher=Cengage Learning|isbn=9780534466695|page=15}}</ref> Depending on definitions, the animal kingdom ] contains about 31 phyla, the plant kingdom ] contains about 14 phyla, and the fungus kingdom ] contains about eight phyla. Current research in ] is uncovering the relationships among phyla within larger ] like ] and ].


== General description ==
The term phylum was coined in 1866 by ] from the Greek {{transl|grc|phylon}} ({{linktext|φῦλον|lang=grc}}, "race, stock"), related to {{transl|grc|phyle}} ({{linktext|φυλή|lang=grc}}, "tribe, clan").{{sfn|Valentine|2004|p=8}} In ], ] (1883) classified plants into ] named divisions, a term that remains in use today for groups of plants, algae and fungi.<ref name=ICN/><ref>{{cite book |author=Naik, V.N. |year=1984 |page=27 |title=Taxonomy of Angiosperms |publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill |isbn=9780074517888 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GanmtXAyU0gC}}</ref>
The term phylum was coined in 1866 by ] from the Greek {{transl|grc|phylon}} ({{linktext|φῦλον|lang=grc}}, "race, stock"), related to {{transl|grc|phyle}} ({{linktext|φυλή|lang=grc}}, "tribe, clan").{{sfn|Valentine|2004|p=8}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Haeckel |first1=Ernst |title=Generelle Morphologie der Organismen |trans-title=The General Morphology of Organisms |date=1866 |publisher=G. Reimer |location=Berlin, (Germany) |volume=1 |pages=–29 |url=https://archive.org/details/generellemorphol01haec |language=de}}</ref> Haeckel noted that species constantly evolved into new species that seemed to retain few consistent features among themselves and therefore few features that distinguished them as a group ("a self-contained unity"): "perhaps such a real and completely self-contained unity is the aggregate of all species which have gradually evolved from one and the same common original form, as, for example, all vertebrates. We name this aggregate {{lang|de|Stamm}} ({{lang|de|Phylon}})."{{efn| {{lang|de|"Wohl aber ist eine solche reale und vollkommen abgeschlossene Einheit die Summe aller Species, welche aus einer und derselben gemeinschaftlichen Stammform allmählig sich entwickelt haben, wie z. B. alle Wirbelthiere. Diese Summe nennen wir Stamm (Phylon)."}}}} In ], ] (1883) classified plants into ] named divisions, a term that remains in use today for groups of plants, algae and fungi.<ref name=ICN/><ref>{{cite book |last=Naik |first=V. N. |year=1984 |page=27 |title=Taxonomy of Angiosperms |publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill |isbn=9780074517888 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GanmtXAyU0gC}}</ref>
The definitions of zoological phyla have changed from their origins in the six ] classes and the four ''{{lang|fr|embranchements}}'' of ].<ref>Collins AG, Valentine JW (2001). Evol. Dev. '''3''': 432-442.</ref>
The definitions of zoological phyla have changed from their origins in the six ] classes and the four {{lang|fr|embranchements}} of ].<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Collins AG, Valentine JW |year=2001 |url=http://si-pddr.si.edu/jspui/bitstream/10088/7403/1/Collins_Valentine_EvDev2001.pdf |title=Defining phyla: evolutionary pathways to metazoan body plans |journal=Evolution and Development |volume=3 |pages=432–442 |access-date=5 March 2013 |archive-date=27 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200427032535/https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/7403 |url-status=dead }}</ref>


Informally, phyla can be thought of as groupings of organisms based on general specialization of ].<ref>{{cite book |last=Valentine |first=James W. |year=2004 |title=On the Origin of Phyla |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |isbn=978-0-226-84548-7 |page=7 |quote=Classifications of organisms in hierarchical systems were in use by the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Usually, organisms were grouped according to their morphological similarities as perceived by those early workers, and those groups were then grouped according to their similarities, and so on, to form a hierarchy.}}</ref> At its most basic, a phylum can be defined in two ways: as a group of organisms with a certain degree of morphological or developmental similarity (the ] definition), or a group of organisms with a certain degree of evolutionary relatedness (the ] definition).<ref name="Budd2000">{{cite journal |last1=Budd |first1=G. E. |last2=Jensen |first2=S. |date=May 2000 |title=A critical reappraisal of the fossil record of the bilaterian phyla |journal=Biological Reviews |volume=75 |issue=2 |pages=253–295 |doi=10.1111/j.1469-185X.1999.tb00046.x |url=http://www.journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S000632310000548X |pmid=10881389 |s2cid=39772232 |access-date=26 May 2007 |archive-date=15 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190915160434/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/biological-reviews/article/critical-reappraisal-of-the-fossil-record-of-the-bilaterian-phyla/84D1DF6738A47E565B400A50590E15E2 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Attempting to define a level of the ] without referring to (evolutionary) relatedness is unsatisfactory, but a phenetic definition is useful when addressing questions of a morphological nature—such as how successful different body plans were.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}
Informally, phyla can be thought of as groupings of organisms based on general specialization of ].<ref>{{cite book |last=Valentine |first=James W. |year=2004 |title=On the Origin of Phyla
|publisher=University Of Chicago Press|location=Chicago |isbn=0-226-84548-6 |page=7 |ref=harv|quote=Classifications of organisms in hierarchical systems were in use by the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Usually organisms were grouped according to their morphological similarities as perceived by those early workers, and those groups were then grouped according to their similarities, and so on, to form a hierarchy.}}</ref> At its most basic, a phylum can be defined in two ways: as a group of organisms with a certain degree of morphological or developmental similarity (the ] definition), or a group of organisms with a certain degree of evolutionary relatedness (the ] definition).<ref name="Budd2000">{{cite journal|author=Budd, G.E. |author2=Jensen, S. |date=May 2000 |title=A critical reappraisal of the fossil record of the bilaterian phyla |journal=Biological Reviews |volume=75 |issue=2 |pages=253–295 |doi=10.1111/j.1469-185X.1999.tb00046.x |url=http://www.journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S000632310000548X SCIOS
|accessdate=2007-05-26 |pmid=10881389}}</ref> Attempting to define a level of the ] without referring to (evolutionary) relatedness is unsatisfactory, but a phenetic definition is useful when addressing questions of a morphological nature—such as how successful different body plans were.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}


=== Definition based on genetic relation === === Definition based on genetic relation ===


The most important objective measure in the above definitions is the "certain degree" that defines how different organisms need to be to be members of different phyla. The minimal requirement is that all organisms in a phylum should be clearly more closely related to one another than to any other group.<ref name=Budd2000/> Even this is problematic because the requirement depends on knowledge of organisms' relationships: as more data become available, particularly from molecular studies, we are better able to determine the relationships between groups. So phyla can be merged or split if it becomes apparent that they are related to one another or not. For example, the ] were described as a new phylum (the Pogonophora) in the middle of the 20th century, but molecular work almost half a century later found them to be a group of ]s, so the phyla were merged (the bearded worms are now an annelid ]).<ref>{{cite journal | author=Rouse G.W. |title=A cladistic analysis of Siboglinidae Caullery, 1914 (Polychaeta, Annelida): formerly the phyla Pogonophora and Vestimentifera | journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | volume=132 | issue=1| year=2001 | pages=55–80 | doi = 10.1006/zjls.2000.0263}}</ref> On the other hand, the highly parasitic phylum ] was divided into two phyla (] and ]) when it was discovered the Orthonectida are probably ]s and the Rhombozoa ]s.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Pawlowski J, Montoya-Burgos JI, Fahrni JF, Wüest J, Zaninetti L |title=Origin of the Mesozoa inferred from 18S rRNA gene sequences |journal=Mol. Biol. Evol. |volume=13 |issue=8 |pages=1128–32 |date=October 1996 |pmid=8865666 |doi= 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025675|url=http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=8865666}}</ref> The most important objective measure in the above definitions is the "certain degree" that defines how different organisms need to be members of different phyla. The minimal requirement is that all organisms in a phylum should be clearly more closely related to one another than to any other group.<ref name=Budd2000/> Even this is problematic because the requirement depends on knowledge of organisms' relationships: as more data become available, particularly from molecular studies, we are better able to determine the relationships between groups. So phyla can be merged or split if it becomes apparent that they are related to one another or not. For example, the ] were described as a new phylum (the Pogonophora) in the middle of the 20th century, but molecular work almost half a century later found them to be a group of ]s, so the phyla were merged (the bearded worms are now an annelid ]).<ref>{{cite journal |last=Rouse |first=G. W. |title=A cladistic analysis of Siboglinidae Caullery, 1914 (Polychaeta, Annelida): formerly the phyla Pogonophora and Vestimentifera | journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | volume=132 | issue=1| year=2001 | pages=55–80 | doi = 10.1006/zjls.2000.0263| doi-access=free }}</ref> On the other hand, the highly parasitic phylum ] was divided into two phyla (] and ]) when it was discovered the Orthonectida are probably ]s and the Rhombozoa ]s.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Pawlowski J, Montoya-Burgos JI, Fahrni JF, Wüest J, Zaninetti L |title=Origin of the Mesozoa inferred from 18S rRNA gene sequences |journal=Molecular Biology and Evolution |volume=13 |issue=8 |pages=1128–32 |date=October 1996 |pmid=8865666 |doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025675|doi-access=free }}</ref>


This changeability of phyla has led some biologists to call for the concept of a phylum to be abandoned in favour of ], a method in which groups are placed on a "family tree" without any formal ranking of group size.<ref name=Budd2000/> This changeability of phyla has led some biologists to call for the concept of a phylum to be abandoned in favour of placing taxa in ]s without any formal ranking of group size.<ref name=Budd2000/>


=== Definition based on body plan === === Definition based on body plan ===

A definition of a phylum based on body plan has been proposed by paleontologists ] and ] (as Haeckel had done a century earlier). The definition was posited because extinct organisms are hardest to classify: they can be offshoots that diverged from a phylum's line before the characters that define the modern phylum were all acquired. By Budd and Jensen's definition, a phylum is defined by a set of characters shared by all its living representatives. A definition of a phylum based on body plan has been proposed by paleontologists ] and ] (as Haeckel had done a century earlier). The definition was posited because extinct organisms are hardest to classify: they can be offshoots that diverged from a phylum's line before the characters that define the modern phylum were all acquired. By Budd and Jensen's definition, a phylum is defined by a set of characters shared by all its living representatives.


This approach brings some small problems—for instance, ancestral characters common to most members of a phylum may have been lost by some members. Also, this definition is based on an arbitrary point of time: the present. However, as it is character based, it is easy to apply to the fossil record. A greater problem is that it relies on a subjective decision about which groups of organisms should be considered as phyla. This approach brings some small problems—for instance, ancestral characters common to most members of a phylum may have been lost by some members. Also, this definition is based on an arbitrary point of time: the present. However, as it is character based, it is easy to apply to the fossil record. A greater problem is that it relies on a subjective decision about which groups of organisms should be considered as phyla.


The approach is useful because it makes it easy to classify extinct organisms as "]s" to the phyla with which they bear the most resemblance, based only on the taxonomically important similarities.<ref name=Budd2000/> However, proving that a fossil belongs to the ] of a phylum is difficult, as it must display a character unique to a sub-set of the crown group.<ref name=Budd2000/> Furthermore, organisms in the stem group of a phylum can possess the "body plan" of the phylum without all the characteristics necessary to fall within it. This weakens the idea that each of the phyla represents a distinct body plan.<ref name=Budd1998>{{Cite journal | author = Budd, G. E. | date = September 1998 | journal = Lethaia | title = Arthropod body-plan evolution in the Cambrian with an example from anomalocaridid muscle | volume = 31 | issue = 3 | pages = 197–210 | url = http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1502-3931.1998.tb00508.x | publisher = Blackwell Synergy | doi = 10.1111/j.1502-3931.1998.tb00508.x}}</ref> The approach is useful because it makes it easy to classify extinct organisms as "]s" to the phyla with which they bear the most resemblance, based only on the taxonomically important similarities.<ref name=Budd2000/> However, proving that a fossil belongs to the ] of a phylum is difficult, as it must display a character unique to a sub-set of the crown group.<ref name=Budd2000/> Furthermore, organisms in the stem group of a phylum can possess the "body plan" of the phylum without all the characteristics necessary to fall within it. This weakens the idea that each of the phyla represents a distinct body plan.<ref name=Budd1998>{{Cite journal | last = Budd | first = G. E. | date = September 1998 | journal = Lethaia | title = Arthropod body-plan evolution in the Cambrian with an example from anomalocaridid muscle | volume = 31 | issue = 3 | pages = 197–210 | doi = 10.1111/j.1502-3931.1998.tb00508.x}}</ref>


A classification using this definition may be strongly affected by the chance survival of rare groups, which can make a phylum much more diverse than it would be otherwise.<ref name="Briggs2005">{{Cite journal |year=2005 |title=Wonderful strife: systematics, stem groups, and the phylogenetic signal of the Cambrian radiation |journal=Paleobiology |volume=31 |issue=2 (Suppl) |pages=94–112 |doi=10.1666/0094-8373(2005)0312.0.CO;2 |author1=Briggs, D. E. G. |authorlink = Derek Briggs|author2=Fortey, R. A.|authorlink2 = Richard Fortey}}</ref> A classification using this definition may be strongly affected by the chance survival of rare groups, which can make a phylum much more diverse than it would be otherwise.<ref name="Briggs2005">{{Cite journal |year=2005 |title=Wonderful strife: systematics, stem groups, and the phylogenetic signal of the Cambrian radiation |journal=Paleobiology |volume=31 |issue=2 (Suppl) |pages=94–112 |doi=10.1666/0094-8373(2005)0312.0.CO;2 |last1=Briggs |first1=D. E. G. |author1-link = Derek Briggs |last2=Fortey |first2=R. A. |s2cid=44066226 |author-link2 = Richard Fortey}}</ref>


== Known phyla == == Known phyla ==


=== Animals === === Animals ===
{{Refimprove section|date=February 2013}}
{{main|Animal}} {{main|Animal}}
{{More citations needed section|date=February 2013}}
Total numbers are estimates; figures from different authors vary wildly, not least because some are based on described species,<ref name="Zhang2013"/> some on extrapolations to numbers of undescribed species. For instance, around 25,000–27,000 species of nematodes have been described, while published estimates of the total number of nematode species include 10,000–20,000; 500,000; 10 million; and 100 million.<ref name=Felder2009>{{cite book |last1=Felder |first1=Darryl L. |last2=Camp |first2=David K. |title=Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota: Biodiversity |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CphA8hiwaFIC&pg=RA1-PA1111 |year=2009 |publisher=Texas A&M University Press |isbn=978-1-60344-269-5 |page=1111}}</ref>

Total numbers are estimates; figures from different authors vary wildly, not least because some are based on described species,<ref name="Zhang2013">{{cite journal|last=Zhang|first=Zhi-Qiang|date=2013-08-30|title=Animal biodiversity: An update of classification and diversity in 2013. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)|url=https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/download/zootaxa.3703.1.3/4273|journal=Zootaxa|volume=3703|issue=1|page=5|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.3|doi-access=free}}</ref> some on extrapolations to numbers of undescribed species. For instance, around 25,000–27,000 species of nematodes have been described, while published estimates of the total number of nematode species include 10,000–20,000; 500,000; 10 million; and 100 million.<ref name=Felder2009>{{cite book |last1=Felder |first1=Darryl L. |last2=Camp |first2=David K. |title=Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota: Biodiversity |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CphA8hiwaFIC&pg=RA1-PA1111 |year=2009 |publisher=Texas A&M University Press |isbn=978-1-60344-269-5 |page=1111}}</ref>

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| first2 = Michael J. | title = Kingdoms and Domains | publisher = Academic Press | edition = 4th corrected | date = 2009 | location = London | isbn = 9780123736215 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9IWaqAOGyt4C}}</ref>{{rp|278}}
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|Multiple circular segments
|{{nts|17000}}+ extant<ref name="Zhang2013">{{cite journal |last=Zhang |first=Zhi-Qiang |title=Animal biodiversity: An update of classification and diversity in 2013. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=3703 |issue=1 |date=2013-08-30 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.3 |url=https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/download/zootaxa.3703.1.3/4273 |page=5}}</ref>
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| ''Limnognathia''
|]-like extensible ] |]-like extensible ]
|{{nts|1}} |{{nts|1}}
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|] |]
|Soft<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|320}} |Soft<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|320}}
|Mollusks / molluscs |Mollusks/molluscs
|Muscular foot and ] round shell |Muscular foot and ] round shell
|{{nts|85000}}+ extant;<ref name="Zhang2013"/> 80,000+ extinct<ref>Feldkamp, S. (2002) ''Modern Biology''. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, USA. (pp. 725)</ref> |{{nts|85000}}+ extant;<ref name="Zhang2013"/> 80,000+ extinct<ref>Feldkamp, S. (2002) ''Modern Biology''. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, USA. (pp. 725)</ref>
|- style="background: #bebebe"
|] <br> <small>('']'')</small>
|One sprout animals
|
| distinct anterior/posterior parts and being densely ciliated, especially around the "mouth" and "anus".
|1
|- style="background: #ffe0e0" |- style="background: #ffe0e0"
|] |]
|Thread like |Thread like
|Round worms, thread worms<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|274}} |Roundworms, threadworms, eelworms, nematodes<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|274}}
|Round cross section, ] ] |Round cross section, ] ]
|{{nts|25000}}<ref name="Zhang2013"/> |{{nts|25000}}<ref name="Zhang2013"/>
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|] |]
|Thread form<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|276}} |Thread form<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|276}}
| Horsehair worms, Gordian worms<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|276}} |Horsehair worms, Gordian worms<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|276}}
|Long, thin parasitic worms closely related to nematodes
|
|{{nts|320|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}} |{{nts|320|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}}
|- style="background: #ffe0e0" |- style="background: #ffe0e0"
|] |]
|A sea nymph<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|270}} |A sea nymph<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|270}}
|Ribbon worms, Rhynchocoela<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|270}} |Ribbon worms<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|270}}
|Unsegmented worms, with a proboscis housed in a cavity derived from the coelom called the rhynchocoel
|
|{{nts|1200|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}} |{{nts|1200|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}}
|- style="background: #ffe0e0" |- style="background: #ffe0e0"
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|Claw bearer |Claw bearer
|Velvet worms<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|328}} |Velvet worms<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|328}}
|Legs tipped by chitinous claws |Worm-like animal with legs tipped by chitinous claws
|{{nts|200|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}} extant |{{nts|200|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}} extant
|- style="background: #ffe0e0" |- style="background: #ffe0e0"
|] |]
|Straight swimming<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|268}} |Straight swimmer
|
|Orthonectids<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|268}}
| Parasitic, microscopic, simple, wormlike organisms
|Single layer of ciliated cells surrounding a mass of sex cells
|20
|{{nts|26|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}}
|- style="background: #f8be9a"
|]
|Shaped like leaves
|
|An extinct phylum from the Ediacaran. They are bottom-dwelling and immobile, shaped like leaves (frondomorphs), feathers or spindles.
|3 classes, extinct
|- style="background: #ffe0e0" |- style="background: #ffe0e0"
|] |]a
|Zeus's mistress |Zeus's mistress
|Horseshoe worms |Horseshoe worms
|U-shaped gut |U-shaped gut
|{{nts|11}} |{{nts|11}}
|- style="background: #bebebe" |- style="background: #a6ba9e"
|] |]
|Plate animals |Plate animals
|Trichoplaxes<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|242}} |Trichoplaxes, placozoans<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|242}}
|Differentiated top and bottom surfaces, two ciliated cell layers, amoeboid fiber cells in between |Differentiated top and bottom surfaces, two ciliated cell layers, amoeboid fiber cells in between
|{{nts|1}} |{{nts|4}}+
|- style="background: #ffe0e0" |- style="background: #ffe0e0"
|] |]
|Flat worm<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|262}} |Flat worm<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|262}}
|Flatworms<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|262}} |Flatworms<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|262}}
|Flattened worms with no body cavity. Many are parasitic.
|
|{{nts|29500|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}}<ref name="Zhang2013"/> |{{nts|29500|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}}<ref name="Zhang2013"/>
|- style="background: #bebebe" |- style="background: #a6ba9e"
|] {{efn|]}} |]
|Pore bearer |Pore bearer
|Sponges<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|246}} |Sponges<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|246}}
|Perforated interior wall |Perforated interior wall, simplest of all known animals
|{{nts|10800}} extant<ref name="Zhang2013"/> |{{nts|10800}} extant<ref name="Zhang2013"/>
|- style="background: #ffe0e0" |- style="background: #ffe0e0"
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|Little ] |Little ]
|Penis worms |Penis worms
|Penis-shaped worms
|
| {{nts|20|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}} | {{nts|20|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}}
|- style="background: #f8be9a"
|]
|Before articulates
|
|An extinct group of mattress-like organisms that display "glide symmetry." Found during the Ediacaran.
|3 classes, extinct
|- style="background: #ffe0e0" |- style="background: #ffe0e0"
|] |]
|Lozenge animal |Lozenge animal
|
| Rhombozoans<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|264}}
|Single ] ] ] surrounded by ciliated cells |Single ] ] ] endoparasites, surrounded by ciliated cells
|{{nts|100}}+ |{{nts|100}}+
|- style="background: #ffe0e0" |- style="background: #ffe0e0"
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|Rotifers<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|282}} |Rotifers<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|282}}
|Anterior crown of cilia |Anterior crown of cilia
|{{nts|2000|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}}<ref name="Zhang2013"/> |{{nts|3500|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}}<ref name="Zhang2013"/>
|-style="background: #a0b0d0"
|]
|Saccus : "pocket" and "wrinkle"
|
|''Saccorhytus'' is only about 1&nbsp;mm (1.3&nbsp;mm) in size and is characterized by a spherical or hemispherical body with a prominent mouth. Its body is covered by a thick but flexible cuticle. It has a nodule above its mouth. Around its body are 8 openings in a truncated cone with radial folds. Considered to be a deuterostome<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Han |first1=Jian |last2=Morris |first2=Simon Conway |last3=Ou |first3=Qiang |last4=Shu |first4=Degan |last5=Huang |first5=Hai |date=2017 |title=Meiofaunal deuterostomes from the basal Cambrian of Shaanxi (China) |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21072 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=542 |issue=7640 |pages=228–231 |doi=10.1038/nature21072 |pmid=28135722 |bibcode=2017Natur.542..228H |s2cid=353780 |issn=1476-4687}}</ref> or an early ].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Liu |first1=Yunhuan |last2=Carlisle |first2=Emily |last3=Zhang |first3=Huaqiao |last4=Yang |first4=Ben |last5=Steiner |first5=Michael |last6=Shao |first6=Tiequan |last7=Duan |first7=Baichuan |last8=Marone |first8=Federica |last9=Xiao |first9=Shuhai |last10=Donoghue |first10=Philip C. J. |date=2022-08-17 |title=Saccorhytus is an early ecdysozoan and not the earliest deuterostome |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05107-z |journal=Nature |volume=609 |issue=7927 |language=en |pages=541–546 |doi=10.1038/s41586-022-05107-z |pmid=35978194 |bibcode=2022Natur.609..541L |s2cid=251646316 |issn=1476-4687|hdl=1983/454e7bec-4cd4-4121-933e-abeab69e96c1 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
|2 species, extinct
|- style="background: #ffe0e0" |- style="background: #ffe0e0"
|] |]
|Slow step |Slow step
|Water bears, moss piglets<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|324}} |Water bears, moss piglets
|Four-segmented body and head |Microscopic relatives of the arthropods, with a four segmented body and head
|{{nts|1000}}+ |{{nts|1000}}
|- style="background: #f8be9a"
|]
|Three-lobed animal
|Trilobozoans
|A taxon of mostly discoidal organisms exhibiting tricentric symmetry. All are Ediacaran-aged
|18 genera, extinct
|-style="background: #f8de7e"
|]
|Ancient dweller
|Vetulicolians
|Might possibly be a subphylum of the chordates. Their body consists of two parts: a large front part and covered with a large "mouth" and a hundred round objects on each side that have been interpreted as gills or openings near the pharynx. Their posterior pharynx consists of 7 segments.
|15 species, extinct
|- style="background: #a0b0d0" |- style="background: #a0b0d0"
|] |]
|Strange form without gut |Strange hollow form
|Xenacoelomorphs
| —
|Small, simple animals. ]n, but lacking typical bilaterian structures such as gut cavities, anuses, and circulatory systems<ref name="Cannon2016">{{cite journal|last1=Cannon |first1=J.T. |last2=Vellutini |first2=B.C. |last3=Smith |first3=J. |last4=Ronquist |first4=F. |last5=Jondelius |first5=U. |last6=Hejnol |first6=A. |title=Xenacoelomorpha is the sister group to Nephrozoa |journal=Nature |volume=530 |issue=7588 |date=4 February 2016 |pages=89–93 |pmid=26842059 |doi=10.1038/nature16520|url=http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nrm:diva-1844 |bibcode=2016Natur.530...89C |s2cid=205247296 }}</ref>
|Ciliated ]
|{{nts|400}}+ |{{nts|400}}+
|-class="sortbottom" |-class="sortbottom"
|'''Total: 33''' |'''Total: 39'''
| |
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{{Main|Plant}} {{Main|Plant}}


The kingdom Plantae is defined in various ways by different biologists (see ]). All definitions include the living ]s (land plants), to which may be added the two green algae divisions, ] and ], to form the clade ]. The table below follows the influential (though contentious) ] in equating "Plantae" with ],<ref name="6kingdoms">{{cite journal | last = Cavalier-Smith | first = Thomas | author-link = Thomas Cavalier-Smith | title = Only Six Kingdoms of Life | journal = Proceedings: Biological Sciences | volume = 271 | issue = 1545 | pages = 1251–1262 | publisher = Royal Society | location = London | date = 22 June 2004 | access-date = 30 December 2016 | doi=10.1098/rspb.2004.2705| pmc = 1691724 }}</ref> a group containing Viridiplantae and the algal ] and ] divisions. The kingdom Plantae is defined in various ways by different biologists (see ]). All definitions include the living ]s (land plants), to which may be added the two green algae divisions, ] and ], to form the clade ]. The table below follows the influential (though contentious) ] in equating "Plantae" with ],<ref name="6kingdoms">{{cite journal | last = Cavalier-Smith | first = Thomas | author-link = Thomas Cavalier-Smith | title = Only Six Kingdoms of Life | journal = Proceedings: Biological Sciences | volume = 271 | issue = 1545 | pages = 1251–1262 | date = 22 June 2004 | doi=10.1098/rspb.2004.2705| pmid = 15306349 | pmc = 1691724 }}</ref> a group containing Viridiplantae and the algal ] and ] divisions.


The definition and classification of plants at the division level also varies from source to source, and has changed progressively in recent years. Thus some sources place horsetails in division Arthrophyta and ferns in division Pteridophyta,{{sfn|Mauseth|2012|pp=514, 517}} while others place them both in Pteridophyta, as shown below. The division Pinophyta may be used for all ]s (i.e. including cycads, ginkgos and gnetophytes),<ref name="Cronquist 1966 129–134">{{cite journal | last=Cronquist | first=A. |author2=A. Takhtajan |author3=W. Zimmermann | date=April 1966 | title=On the higher taxa of Embryobionta | journal=Taxon | issue=4 | pages=129–134 | doi=10.2307/1217531 | volume=15 | publisher=International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) | jstor=1217531 }}</ref> or for conifers alone as below. The definition and classification of plants at the division level also varies from source to source, and has changed progressively in recent years. Thus some sources place horsetails in division Arthrophyta and ferns in division Monilophyta,{{sfn|Mauseth|2012|pp=514, 517}} while others place them both in Monilophyta, as shown below. The division Pinophyta may be used for all ]s (i.e. including cycads, ginkgos and gnetophytes),<ref name="Cronquist 1966 129–134">{{cite journal | last=Cronquist | first=A. |author2=A. Takhtajan |author3=W. Zimmermann | date=April 1966 | title=On the higher taxa of Embryobionta | journal=Taxon | issue=4 | pages=129–134 | doi=10.2307/1217531 | volume=15 | jstor=1217531 }}</ref> or for conifers alone as below.


Since the first publication of the ] in 1998, which proposed a classification of angiosperms up to the level of ]s, many sources have preferred to treat ranks higher than orders as informal clades. Where formal ranks have been provided, the traditional divisions listed below have been reduced to a very much lower level, e.g. ]es.<ref>{{Citation |last=Chase |first=Mark W. |last2=Reveal |first2=James L. |date=October 2009 |title=A phylogenetic classification of the land plants to accompany APG III |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=161 |issue=2 |pages=122–127 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.01002.x |lastauthoramp=yes }}</ref> Since the first publication of the ] in 1998, which proposed a classification of ]s up to the level of ]s, many sources have preferred to treat ranks higher than orders as informal clades. Where formal ranks have been provided, the traditional divisions listed below have been reduced to a very much lower level, e.g. ]es.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Chase |first1=Mark W. |last2=Reveal |first2=James L. |date=October 2009 |title=A phylogenetic classification of the land plants to accompany APG III |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=161 |issue=2 |pages=122–127 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.01002.x |name-list-style=amp |doi-access=free }}</ref>


{| class="wikitable" {| class="wikitable"
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!Division!!Meaning!!Common name!!Distinguishing characteristics!!Species described !Division!!Meaning!!Common name!!Distinguishing characteristics!!Species described
|- style="background: #cbfdcb" |- style="background: #cbfdcb"
| ]<ref>{{cite book | ref = harv | last = Mauseth | first = James D. | title = Botany : An Introduction to Plant Biology | edition = 5th | year = 2012 | isbn = 978-1-4496-6580-7 | publisher = Jones and Bartlett Learning | location = Sudbury, MA}} p. 489</ref> | ]<ref name = Mauseth489>{{cite book | last = Mauseth | first = James D. | title = Botany : An Introduction to Plant Biology | edition = 5th | year = 2012 | isbn = 978-1-4496-6580-7 | publisher = Jones and Bartlett Learning | location = Sudbury, MA}} p. 489</ref>
| '']''-like plant | '']''-like plants
| Hornworts | Hornworts
| Horn-shaped ]s, no vascular system | Horn-shaped ]s, no vascular system
| {{nts|100}}-300+ | {{nts|100}}–300+
|- style="background: #cbfdcb" |- style="background: #cbfdcb"
| ]{{sfn|Mauseth|2012|p=489}} | ]<ref name = Mauseth489/>
| '']''<!--is that right? Bruon is Greek for moss-->-like plant, moss plant | '']''<!--is that right? Bruon is Greek for moss-->-like plants, moss plants
| Mosses | Mosses
| Persistent unbranched ]s, no vascular system | Persistent unbranched ]s, no vascular system
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|- style="background: #c2e085" |- style="background: #c2e085"
| ] | ]
| '']''-like plant | '']''-like plants
| Charophytes | Charophytes
| |
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|- style="background: #c2e085" |- style="background: #c2e085"
| ] | ]
| Yellow-green plant<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|200}} | (Yellow-)green plants<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|200}}
| Chlorophytes | Chlorophytes
| |
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|- style="background: #cbfdcb" |- style="background: #cbfdcb"
| ]{{sfn|Mauseth|2012|p=540}} | ]{{sfn|Mauseth|2012|p=540}}
| '']''-like plant, palm-like plant | '']''-like plants, palm-like plants
| Cycads | Cycads
| Seeds, crown of compound leaves | Seeds, crown of compound leaves
| {{nts|100|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}}-200 | {{nts|100|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}}–200
|- style="background: #cbfdcb" |- style="background: #cbfdcb"
| ]{{sfn|Mauseth|2012|p=542}} | ]{{sfn|Mauseth|2012|p=542}}
| '']''-like plant | '']''-like plants
| Ginkgophytes
| Ginkgo, maidenhair tree
| Seeds not protected by fruit (single living species) | Seeds not protected by fruit
| {{nts|1|prefix=only&nbsp;}} extant; 50+ extinct | {{nts|1|prefix=only&nbsp;}} extant; 50+ extinct
|- style="background: #bebebe" |- style="background: #bebebe"
| ] | ]
| Blue-green plant | Blue-green plants
| Glaucophytes | Glaucophytes
| |
| {{nts|13}} | {{nts|15}}
|- style="background: #cbfdcb" |- style="background: #cbfdcb"
| ]{{sfn|Mauseth|2012|p=543}} | ]{{sfn|Mauseth|2012|p=543}}
| '']''-like plant | '']''-like plants
| Gnetophytes | Gnetophytes
| Seeds and woody vascular system with vessels | Seeds and woody vascular system with vessels
| {{nts|70|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}} | {{nts|70|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}}
|- style="background: #cbfdcb" |- style="background: #cbfdcb"
| ]{{sfn|Mauseth|2012|p=509}}
| ],<ref name="Cronquist 1966 129–134"/><br>
|'']''-like plants<br>
Lycophyta{{sfn|Mauseth|2012|p=509}}
Wolf plants
|'']''-like plant<br>
| Clubmosses
Wolf plant
| Clubmosses & spikemosses
|] ], vascular system |] ], vascular system
| {{nts|1290}} extant | {{nts|1290}} extant
|- style="background: #cbfdcb" |- style="background: #cbfdcb"
| ] | ]
| Seed container
| '']''-like plant
| Flowering plants, angiosperms | Flowering plants, angiosperms
| Flowers and fruit, vascular system with vessels | Flowers and fruit, vascular system with vessels
| {{nts|300000}} | {{nts|300000}}
|- style="background: #cbfdcb" |- style="background: #cbfdcb"
| ],<ref name="Stotlers 2000">{{cite book | last1=Crandall-Stotler | first1=Barbara | last2=Stotler | first2=Raymond E. | year=2000 | chapter=Morphology and classification of the Marchantiophyta | page=21 | editors=A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (Eds.) | title=Bryophyte Biology | location=Cambridge | publisher=Cambridge University Press | isbn=0-521-66097-1 }}</ref><br> | ],<ref name="Stotlers 2000">{{cite book | last1=Crandall-Stotler | first1=Barbara | last2=Stotler | first2=Raymond E. | year=2000 | chapter=Morphology and classification of the Marchantiophyta | page=21 |editor1=A. Jonathan Shaw |editor2=Bernard Goffinet | title=Bryophyte Biology | location=Cambridge | publisher=Cambridge University Press | isbn=978-0-521-66097-6 }}</ref><br>
Hepatophyta{{sfn|Mauseth|2012|p=489}} Hepatophyta<ref name = Mauseth489/>
| '']''-like plant<br> | '']''-like plants<br>
Liver plant Liver plants
| Liverworts | Liverworts
| Ephemeral unbranched ]s, no vascular system | Ephemeral unbranched ]s, no vascular system
| {{nts|9000|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}} | {{nts|9000|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}}
|- style="background: #cbfdcb"
|]
|'']''-like plants<br>
|Ferns
|] ], vascular system
| {{nts|10560|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}}
|- style="background: #bebebe"
|]
| Extremely small animals
|Picozoans, picobiliphytes
|
|1
|- style="background: #cbfdcb" |- style="background: #cbfdcb"
| ],<ref name="Cronquist 1966 129–134"/><br> | ],<ref name="Cronquist 1966 129–134"/><br>
Coniferophyta{{sfn|Mauseth|2012|p=535}} Coniferophyta{{sfn|Mauseth|2012|p=535}}
|'']''-like plant<br> |'']''-like plants<br>
Cone-bearing plant Cone-bearing plant
| Conifers | Conifers
| Cones containing seeds and wood composed of tracheids | Cones containing seeds and wood composed of tracheids
| {{nts|629}} extant | {{nts|629}} extant
|- style="background: #cbfdcb"
| ]{{citation needed|date=August 2013}}<!-- for inclusive circumscription -->
| '']''-like plant, fern plant
| Ferns & horsetails
| ] ]s, vascular system
| {{nts|9000|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}} (not including lycophytes)
|- style="background: #bebebe" |- style="background: #bebebe"
| ] |]
| ]-like plants
| Rose plant
|Picozoans, picobiliphytes, biliphytes
| Red algae
| |
|8
| {{nts|7000|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}}
|- style="background: #bebebe"
|-class="sortbottom"
|]
|Rose plants
|Red algae
|Use ]s as ]s.
|{{nts|7000|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}}
|- wowowowk
|'''Total: 14''' |'''Total: 14'''
| |
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{|class="wikitable sortable" {|class="wikitable sortable"
!Division!!Meaning!!Common name!!Distinguishing characteristics !Division!!Meaning!!Common name!!Distinguishing characteristics!!Species described
|- |-
| ] | ]
| Bladder fungus<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|396}} | Bladder fungus<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|396}}
| Ascomycetes,<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|396}} sac fungi | Ascomycetes,<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|396}} sac fungi
|Tend to have fruiting bodies (ascocarp).<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Advances in Applied Microbiology Chapter 2 - Fungal Spores for Dispersion in Space and Time|journal=Advances in Applied Microbiology|volume=85|pages=43–91 |last1=Wyatt |first1=T. |last2=Wösten |first2=H. |last3=Dijksterhuis |first3=J. |doi = 10.1016/B978-0-12-407672-3.00002-2|pmid=23942148|year=2013}}</ref> Filamentous, producing hyphae separated by septa. Can reproduce asexually.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-biology/chapter/classifications-of-fungi/|title=Classifications of Fungi {{!}} Boundless Biology|website=courses.lumenlearning.com|access-date=2019-05-05}}</ref>
|
|30,000
|- |-
| ] | ]
| Small base fungus<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|402}} | Small base fungus<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|402}}
| Basidiomycetes<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|402}} | Basidiomycetes,<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|402}} club fungi
|Bracket fungi, toadstools, smuts and rust. Sexual reproduction.<ref name="courses.lumenlearning.com">{{cite web |title=Archaeal Genetics {{!}} Boundless Microbiology |url=https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-microbiology/chapter/archaeal-genetics/ |website=courses.lumenlearning.com}}</ref>
|
| 31,515
|- |-
| ] | ]
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| access-date = 29 December 2016}}</ref> | access-date = 29 December 2016}}</ref>
| Blastoclads | Blastoclads
| |
| Less than 200
|- |-
| ] | ]
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| access-date = 29 December 2016}}</ref> | access-date = 29 December 2016}}</ref>
| Chytrids | Chytrids
|Predominantly Aquatic ] or parasitic. Have a posterior ]. Tend to be single celled but can also be multicellular.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/science/Chytridiomycota|title=Chytridiomycota {{!}} phylum of fungi|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-05-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Physical Chemical Properties of Fungi|last=McConnaughey|first=M|doi = 10.1016/B978-0-12-801238-3.05231-4|year = 2014|isbn = 9780128012383}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title=Fossil Fungi Chapter 4 - Chytridiomycota|last1=Taylor |last2=Krings |last3=Taylor|first1=Thomas |first2=Michael |first3=Edith|doi=10.1016/b978-0-12-387731-4.00004-9|year=2015|journal=Fossil Fungi|pages=41–67}}</ref>
|
|1000+
|- |-
| ] | ]
| Ball of yarn fungus<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|394}} | Ball of yarn fungus<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|394}}
| Glomeromycetes, {{abbr|AM|arbuscular mycorrhizal}} fungi<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|394}} | Glomeromycetes, {{abbr|AM|arbuscular mycorrhizal}} fungi<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|394}}
|Mainly arbuscular mycorrhizae present, terrestrial with a small presence on wetlands. Reproduction is asexual but requires plant roots.<ref name="courses.lumenlearning.com"/>
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|- |-
| ] | ]
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| Microsporans<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|390}} | Microsporans<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|390}}
| |
| 1400
|- |-
| ] | ]
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| access-date = 29 December 2016}}</ref> | access-date = 29 December 2016}}</ref>
| Neocallimastigomycetes | Neocallimastigomycetes
|Predominantly located in digestive tract of herbivorous animals. Anaerobic, terrestrial and aquatic.<ref name="Types of Fungi">{{Cite web|url=https://biologywise.com/types-of-fungi|title=Types of Fungi|website=BiologyWise|date=22 May 2009|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-05}}</ref>
|
| approx. 20 <ref name="Phylogeny of anaerobic fungi (phylum Neocallimastigomycota), with contributions from yak in China">{{cite journal |last1=Wang |first1=Xuewei |last2=Liu |first2=Xingzhong |last3=Groenewald |first3=Johannes Z. |title=Phylogeny of anaerobic fungi (phylum Neocallimastigomycota), with contributions from yak in China |journal=Antonie van Leeuwenhoek |date=2017 |volume=110 |issue=1 |pages=87–103 |doi=10.1007/s10482-016-0779-1 |pmid=27734254 |pmc=5222902 }}</ref>
|- |-
| ] | ]
| Pair fungus<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|392}} | Pair fungus<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|392}}
| Zygomycetes<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|392}} | Zygomycetes<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|392}}
|Most are saprobes and reproduce sexually and asexually.<ref name="Types of Fungi"/>
|
| approx. 1060
|-class="sortbottom" |-class="sortbottom"
|'''Total: 8''' |'''Total: 8'''
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Phylum Microsporidia is generally included in kingdom Fungi, though its exact relations remain uncertain,<ref name=Hibbett2007>{{cite journal | vauthors = Hibbett DS, Binder M, Bischoff JF, Blackwell M, Cannon PF, Eriksson OE, Huhndorf S, James T, Kirk PM, Lücking R, Thorsten Lumbsch H, Lutzoni F, Matheny PB, McLaughlin DJ, Powell MJ, Redhead S, Schoch CL, Spatafora JW, Stalpers JA, Vilgalys R, Aime MC, Aptroot A, Bauer R, Begerow D, Benny GL, Castlebury LA, Crous PW, Dai YC, Gams W, Geiser DM, Griffith GW, Gueidan C, Hawksworth DL, Hestmark G, Hosaka K, Humber RA, Hyde KD, Ironside JE, Kõljalg U, Kurtzman CP, Larsson KH, Lichtwardt R, Longcore J, Miadlikowska J, Miller A, Moncalvo JM, Mozley-Standridge S, Oberwinkler F, Parmasto E, Reeb V, Rogers JD, Roux C, Ryvarden L, Sampaio JP, Schüssler A, Sugiyama J, Thorn RG, Tibell L, Untereiner WA, Walker C, Wang Z, Weir A, Weiss M, White MM, Winka K, Yao YJ, Zhang N | display-authors = 6 | title = A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi | journal = Mycological Research | volume = 111 | issue = Pt 5 | pages = 509–47 | date = May 2007 | pmid = 17572334 | doi = 10.1016/j.mycres.2007.03.004 | url = http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/dhibbett/AFTOL/documents/AFTOL%20class%20mss%2023,%2024/AFTOL%20CLASS%20MS%20resub.pdf | format = PDF | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090326135053/http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/dhibbett/AFTOL/documents/AFTOL%20class%20mss%2023%2C%2024/AFTOL%20CLASS%20MS%20resub.pdf | archivedate = 26 March 2009 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> and it is considered a ]n by the International Society of Protistologists<ref name="Ruggiero2015" /> (see ], below). Molecular analysis of Zygomycota has found it to be ] (its members do not share an immediate ancestor),<ref>{{cite journal Phylum Microsporidia is generally included in kingdom Fungi, though its exact relations remain uncertain,<ref name=Hibbett2007>{{cite journal | vauthors = Hibbett DS, Binder M, Bischoff JF, Blackwell M, Cannon PF, Eriksson OE, Huhndorf S, James T, Kirk PM, Lücking R, Thorsten Lumbsch H, Lutzoni F, Matheny PB, McLaughlin DJ, Powell MJ, Redhead S, Schoch CL, Spatafora JW, Stalpers JA, Vilgalys R, Aime MC, Aptroot A, Bauer R, Begerow D, Benny GL, Castlebury LA, Crous PW, Dai YC, Gams W, Geiser DM, Griffith GW, Gueidan C, Hawksworth DL, Hestmark G, Hosaka K, Humber RA, Hyde KD, Ironside JE, Kõljalg U, Kurtzman CP, Larsson KH, Lichtwardt R, Longcore J, Miadlikowska J, Miller A, Moncalvo JM, Mozley-Standridge S, Oberwinkler F, Parmasto E, Reeb V, Rogers JD, Roux C, Ryvarden L, Sampaio JP, Schüssler A, Sugiyama J, Thorn RG, Tibell L, Untereiner WA, Walker C, Wang Z, Weir A, Weiss M, White MM, Winka K, Yao YJ, Zhang N | display-authors = 6 | title = A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi | journal = Mycological Research | volume = 111 | issue = Pt 5 | pages = 509–47 | date = May 2007 | pmid = 17572334 | doi = 10.1016/j.mycres.2007.03.004 | url = http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/dhibbett/AFTOL/documents/AFTOL%20class%20mss%2023,%2024/AFTOL%20CLASS%20MS%20resub.pdf | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090326135053/http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/dhibbett/AFTOL/documents/AFTOL%20class%20mss%2023%2C%2024/AFTOL%20CLASS%20MS%20resub.pdf | archive-date = 26 March 2009| citeseerx = 10.1.1.626.9582 | s2cid = 4686378 }}</ref> and it is considered a ]n by the International Society of Protistologists<ref name="Ruggiero2015" /> (see ], below). Molecular analysis of Zygomycota has found it to be ] (its members do not share an immediate ancestor),<ref>{{cite journal
| last1 = White | last1 = White
| first1 = Merlin M. | first1 = Merlin M.
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| issue = 6 | issue = 6
| pages = 872–884 | pages = 872–884
| publisher = Mycological Society of America
| location = Lawrence, KS
| date = Nov–Dec 2006 | date = Nov–Dec 2006
| doi=10.1080/15572536.2006.11832617| pmid = 17486964
| access-date = 29 December 2016
| s2cid = 218589354
| doi=10.1080/15572536.2006.11832617}}</ref> which is considered undesirable by many biologists. Accordingly, there is a proposal to abolish the Zygomycota phylum. Its members would be divided between phylum Glomeromycota and four new subphyla '']'' (of uncertain placement): ], ], ], and ].<ref name=Hibbett2007 />
}}</ref> which is considered undesirable by many biologists. Accordingly, there is a proposal to abolish the Zygomycota phylum. Its members would be divided between phylum Glomeromycota and four new subphyla '']'' (of uncertain placement): ], ], ], and ].<ref name=Hibbett2007 />


=== Protista === === Protists ===
{{Main|Protista taxonomy}} {{Main|Taxonomy of Protista}}


Kingdom ] (or Protoctista) is included in the traditional five- or six-kingdom model, where it can be defined as containing all ]s that are not plants, animals, or fungi.<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|120}} Protista is a ] taxon<ref>{{cite journal| last = Hagen| first = Joel B.| date = January 2012| title = Five Kingdoms, More or Less: Robert Whittaker and the Broad Classification of Organisms| journal = BioScience| volume = 62| issue = 1 Kingdom ] (or Protoctista) is included in the traditional five- or six-kingdom model, where it can be defined as containing all ]s that are not plants, animals, or fungi.<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|120}} Protista is a ] taxon,<ref>{{cite journal| last = Hagen| first = Joel B.| date = January 2012| title = Five Kingdoms, More or Less: Robert Whittaker and the Broad Classification of Organisms| journal = BioScience| volume = 62| issue = 1 | pages = 67–74| doi=10.1525/bio.2012.62.1.11| doi-access = free}}</ref> which is less acceptable to present-day biologists than in the past. Proposals have been made to divide it among several new kingdoms, such as ] and ] in the ].<ref name="Reconciling">{{cite journal | last1 = Blackwell | first1 = Will H. | last2 = Powell | first2 = Martha J. | title = Reconciling Kingdoms with Codes of Nomenclature: Is It Necessary? | journal = Systematic Biology | volume = 48 | issue = 2 | pages = 406–412 | date = June 1999 | doi=10.1080/106351599260382| pmid = 12066717 | doi-access = free }}</ref>
| pages = 67–74| doi=10.1525/bio.2012.62.1.11}}</ref> (it includes groups not directly related to one another), which is less acceptable to present-day biologists than in the past. Proposals have been made to divide it among several new kingdoms, such as ] and ] in the ].<ref name="Reconciling">{{cite journal | last1 = Blackwell | first1 = Will H. | last2 = Powell | first2 = Martha J. | title = Reconciling Kingdoms with Codes of Nomenclature: Is It Necessary? | journal = Systematic Biology | volume = 48 | issue = 2 | pages = 406–412 | date = June 1999 | doi=10.1080/106351599260382}}</ref>


Protist taxonomy has long been unstable,<ref>{{cite web | url = http://faculty.msj.edu/davisr/potpouri/protista.htm | title = Kingdom PROTISTA | last = Davis | first = R. A. | date = 19 March 2012 | website = College of Mount St. Joseph | access-date = 28 December 2016}}</ref> with different approaches and definitions resulting in many competing classification schemes. Many of the phyla listed below are used by the ],<ref name="CoLtree">{{cite web | url = http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree?de3fa845167fa2ccdac6ddcb6e8d9a28 | title = Taxonomic tree | date = 23 December 2016 | website = Catalogue of Life | access-date = 28 December 2016 | archive-date = 1 August 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210801083911/https://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree?de3fa845167fa2ccdac6ddcb6e8d9a28 | url-status = dead }}</ref> and correspond to the Protozoa-Chromista scheme,<ref name="Ruggiero2015">{{cite journal | last1 = Ruggiero | first1 = Michael A. | last2 = Gordon | first2 = Dennis P. | last3 = Orrell | first3 = Thomas M. | last4 = Bailly | first4 = Nicholas | last5 = Bourgoin | first5 = Thierry | last6 = Brusca | first6 = Richard C. | last7 = Cavalier-Smith | first7 = Thomas | last8 = Guiry | first8 = Michael D. | last9 = Kirk | first9 = Paul M. | display-authors=3 | title = A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 10 | issue = 6 | date = 29 April 2015 | doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0119248 | pmid = 25923521 | pmc = 4418965 | page=e0119248| bibcode = 2015PLoSO..1019248R | doi-access = free }}</ref> with updates from the latest (2022) publication by ].<ref name="Cavalier-Smith 2022">{{cite journal|vauthors=Cavalier-Smith T|title=Ciliary transition zone evolution and the root of the eukaryote tree: implications for opisthokont origin and classification of kingdoms Protozoa, Plantae, and Fungi|journal=Protoplasma|volume=259|pages=487–593|date=2022|doi=10.1007/s00709-021-01665-7|pmc=9010356}}</ref> Other phyla are used commonly by other authors, and are adapted from the system used by the International Society of Protistologists (ISP). Some of the descriptions are based on the 2019 revision of eukaryotes by the ISP.<ref name="Adl 2019">{{cite journal|vauthors=Adl SM, Bass D, Lane CE, Lukeš J, Schoch CL, Smirnov A, Agatha S, Berney C, Brown MW, Burki F, Cárdenas P, Čepička I, Chistyakova L, del Campo J, Dunthorn M, Edvardsen B, Eglit Y, Guillou L, Hampl V, Heiss AA, Hoppenrath M, James TY, Karnkowska A, Karpov S, Kim E, Kolisko M, Kudryavtsev A, ((Lahr DJG)), Lara E, Le Gall L, Lynn DH, Mann DG, Massana R, ((Mitchell EAD)), Morrow C, Park JS, Pawlowski JW, Powell MJ, Richter DJ, Rueckert S, Shadwick L, Shimano S, Spiegel FW, Torruella G, Youssef N, Zlatogursky V, Zhang Q|year=2019|title=Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes|journal=Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology|volume=66|issue=1 |pages=4–119|doi=10.1111/jeu.12691|pmid=30257078 |pmc=6492006 }}</ref>
Protist taxonomy has long been unstable,<ref>{{cite web | url = http://faculty.msj.edu/davisr/potpouri/protista.htm | title = Kingdom PROTISTA | last = Davis | first = R. A. | date = 19 March 2012 | website = College of Mount St. Joseph | access-date = 28 December 2016}}</ref> with different approaches and definitions resulting in many competing classification schemes. The phyla listed here are used for Chromista and Protozoa by the ],<ref name="CoLtree">{{cite web | url = http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree?de3fa845167fa2ccdac6ddcb6e8d9a28 | title = Taxonomic tree | date = 23 December 2016
| website = Catalogue of Life | access-date = 28 December 2016}}</ref> adapted from the system used by the International Society of Protistologists.<ref name="Ruggiero2015">{{cite journal | last1 = Ruggiero | first1 = Michael A. | last2 = Gordon | first2 = Dennis P. | last3 = Orrell | first3 = Thomas M. | last4 = Bailly | first4 = Nicholas | last5 = Bourgoin | first5 = Thierry | last6 = Brusca | first6 = Richard C. | last7 = Cavalier-Smith | first7 = Thomas | last8 = Guiry | first8 = Michael D. | last9 = Kirk | first9 = Paul M. | display-authors=3 | title = A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms | journal = PLOS One | volume = 10 | issue = 6 | date = 29 April 2015 | doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0119248 | page=e0119248}}</ref>


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{|class="wikitable sortable" {|class="wikitable sortable"
!Phylum/Division!!Meaning!!Common name!!Distinguishing characteristics!!Example !Phylum!!Meaning!!Common name!!Distinguishing characteristics!!Species described!!Image
|- style="background: #ffe0e0" |- style="background: #c5dafc"
| ] | ]
| Amorphous animal | Amorphous animals
| Amoebozoans
| Amoebas
| Presence of ] for ] movement, tubular ].<ref name="Adl 2019"/>
|
| {{nts|2400|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}}<ref name="Pawlowski_2012">{{cite journal | vauthors = Pawlowski J, Audic S, Adl S, Bass D, Belbahri L, Berney C, Bowser SS, Cepicka I, Decelle J, Dunthorn M, Fiore-Donno AM, Gile GH, Holzmann M, Jahn R, Jirků M, Keeling PJ, Kostka M, Kudryavtsev A, Lara E, Lukeš J, Mann DG, Mitchell EA, Nitsche F, Romeralo M, Saunders GW, Simpson AG, Smirnov AV, Spouge JL, Stern RF, Stoeck T, Zimmermann J, Schindel D, de Vargas C | display-authors = 6 | title = CBOL protist working group: barcoding eukaryotic richness beyond the animal, plant, and fungal kingdoms | journal = PLOS Biology | volume = 10 | issue = 11 | pages = e1001419 | date = November 6, 2012 | pmid = 23139639 | pmc = 3491025 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001419 | doi-access = free }}</ref>
| '']''
| ]
|- style="background: #cbfdcb"
|- style="background: #ffc8a6"
| ]
| Apical infolds<ref name="Apicomplexa"/>
| Apicomplexans, sporozoans
| Mostly parasitic, at least one stage of the life cycle with flattened subpellicular vesicles and a complete apical complex, non-photosynthetic ].<ref name="Adl 2019"/>
| {{nts|6000|prefix=over&nbsp;}}<ref name="Apicomplexa">{{cite book | vauthors = Votýpka J, Modrý D, Oborník M, Šlapeta J, Lukeš J | date = 2016| chapter = Apicomplexa | veditors = Archibald J, ((Simpson AGB)), Slamovits CH, Margulis L, Melkonian M, Chapman DJ, Corliss JO | title = Handbook of the Protists | publisher = Springer | publication-place = Cham | doi = 10.1007/978-3-319-32669-6_20-1}}</ref>
| ]
|- style="background: #c5dafc"
| ]{{br}}{{small|(])}}
| '']''-like animals
|
| ] bi] with two or three connectors between ]s
| 32
| ]
|- style="background: #fff9a6"
| ] | ]
| Two ring | Two rings
| |
| ] with a double helix in ciliary transition zone
|
| |
| ]
|- style="background: #ffe0e0"
|- style="background: #f8de7e"
| ] | ]
| Flagellated animal
|
| Cercozoans
|
| Defined by ], lacking distinctive morphological or behavioural characters.<ref name="Adl 2019"/>
|
| |
| ]
|- style="background: #ffe0e0"
|- style="background: #ffc8a6"
| ]
| ]
| Funnel animal
| '']''-like organisms
|
| Chrompodellids, chromerids, colpodellids<ref name="Janouškovec 2015">{{cite Q|Q30662251}}</ref>
|
| Biflagellates, chloroplasts with four membranes, incomplete apical complex, cortical alveoli, tubular cristae.<ref name="Adl 2019" />
|
| 8<ref name="Guiry 2024"/>
|- style="background: #cbfdcb"
| ]
|- style="background: #c5dafc"
| ]{{br}}{{small|(])}}
| Funnel animals<ref name="K&D"/>
| Opisthokont protists
| ]; some with a ] surrounding a ]
| {{nts|300|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}}<ref name="Pawlowski_2012"/>
| ]
|- style="background: #ffc8a6"
| ] | ]
| Cilia bearer | Cilia bearers
| Ciliates | Ciliates
| Presence of multiple cilia and a ].
|
| {{nts|4500|prefix=approx.&nbsp;}}<ref name="Protist diversity">{{Cite book|url=https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789048128006|title=Protist Diversity and Geographical Distribution|date=2009|publisher=Springer Netherlands|isbn=9789048128006|editor-last=Foissner|editor-first=W.|series=Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation|volume=8|pages=111|doi=10.1007/978-90-481-2801-3|language=en|editor-last2=Hawksworth|editor-first2=David}}</ref>
| ''Paramecium''
| ]
|- style="background: #cbfdcb"
|- style="background: #ddfa5a"
| ] | ]
| Hidden<ref name="K&D"/>
|
| Defined by ], flat cristae.<ref name="Adl 2019"/>
| {{nts|246}}<ref name="Guiry 2024"/><ref name="Adl 2019"/>
| ]
|- style="background: #ffc8a6"
| ]
| Whirling flagellates<ref name="K&D"/>
| Dinoflagellates
| Biflagellates with a transverse ribbon-like flagellum with multiple waves beating to the cell’s left and a longitudinal flagellum beating posteriorly with only one or few waves.<ref name="Adl 2019"/>
| {{nts|2957}} extant{{br}}955 fossil<ref name="Guiry 2024"/>
| ]
|- style="background: #f8de7e"
| ]
| Within mucus<ref name="K&D"/><ref name="Endomyxa">{{cite Q|Q28212529}}</ref>
|
| Defined by ],<ref name="Adl 2019" /> typically plasmodial endoparasites of other eukaryotes.<ref name="Endomyxa"/>
| |
| ]
|
|- style="background: #ffd4fe"
|
| ]{{br}}{{small|(])}}
|
| Early groove<ref name="LSC">{{cite journal|vauthors=Cavalier-Smith T|date=2013|title=Early evolution of eukaryote feeding modes, cell structural diversity, and classification of the protozoan phyla Loukozoa, Sulcozoa, and Choanozoa|journal=European Journal of Protistology|volume=49|issue=2|pages=115–178|doi=10.1016/j.ejop.2012.06.001|pmid=23085100}}</ref>
|- style="background: #ffe0e0"
|
| Heterotrophic biflagellates with ventral feeding groove.<ref name="LSC"/>
| {{nts|23}}
| ]
|- style="background: #ffd4fe"
| ] | ]
| True eye animal | True eye animals
| |
| Biflagellates, one of the two ] inserted into an apical or subapical pocket, unique ciliary configuration.<ref name="Adl 2019"/>
| {{nts|2037}} extant{{br}}20 fossil<ref name="Guiry 2024"/>
| ]
|- style="background: #fff9a6"
| ],{{br}}]
| ] plants, heterokont plants
| Heterokont algae, stramenochromes, ochrophytes, heterokontophytes
| Biflagellates with tripartite mastigonemes, chloroplasts with four membranes and chlorophylls ''a'' and ''c'', tubular cristae.<ref name="Adl 2019"/>
| {{nts|21052}} extant{{br}}2,262 fossil<ref name="Guiry 2024">{{cite Q|Q124684077}}</ref>
| ]
|- style="background: #ddfa5a"
| ]
| Fasten<ref name="K&D"/>
| |
| Thin ]-based appendages for feeding (haptonema in ], ] in ]s), complex mineralized scales.<ref name="Adl 2019"/>
| ''Euglena''
| {{nts|517}} extant{{br}}1,205 fossil<ref name="Guiry 2024"/>
|- style="background: #ffe0e0"
| ]
| ]
|- style="background: #d6d6d6"
| Hole bearers
| ]
| Forams
| Incomplete or atypical flagellates<ref name="Hemimastigophora"/>
| Complex shells with one or more chambers
| Hemimastigotes<ref>{{cite Q|Q58834974}}</ref>
| Forams
| Ellipsoid or vermiform phagotrophs, two slightly spiraling rows of around 12 cilia each, thecal plates below the membrane supported by microtubules and rotationally symmetrical, tubular and saccular cristae.<ref name="Adl 2019"/><ref name="Hemimastigophora">{{cite Q|Q85570914}}</ref>
|- style="background: #cbfdcb"
| {{nts|10}}<ref name="Spironematellidae">{{cite journal|first1=Yegor|last1=Shɨshkin|title=''Spironematella terricola'' comb. n. and ''Spironematella goodeyi'' comb. n. (Hemimastigida = Hemimastigea = Hemimastigophora) for ''Spironema terricola'' and ''Spironema goodeyi'' with diagnoses of the genus and family Spironematellidae amended|journal=Zootaxa|date=2022|volume=5128|issue=2|pages=295–297|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.5128.2.8|pmid=36101172|s2cid=252220401}}</ref>
| ]
|]
|
|- style="background: #ffd4fe"
|
| ]
|
| '']''-like organisms
|
| Malawimonads
|- style="background: #ffe0e0"
| Small free-living bicilates with two kinetosomes, one or two vanes in posterior cilium.
| ]
| {{nts|3}}<ref name="Imasa heleensis">{{cite journal|vauthors=Heiss AA, Warring SD, Lukacs K, Favate J, Yang A, Gyaltshen Y, Filardi C, ((Simpson AGB)), Kim E|date=December 2020|title=Description of Imasa heleensis, gen. nov., sp. nov. (Imasidae, fam. nov.), a Deep-Branching Marine Malawimonad and Possible Key Taxon in Understanding Early Eukaryotic Evolution|journal=Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology|volume=68|pages=e12837|doi=10.1111/jeu.12837}}</ref>
| Groove animal
| ]
|
|- style="background: #ffd4fe"
|
|
|- style="background: #ffe0e0"
| ] | ]
| Middle ]
| Metamonads
| ] or ], some without ]; four ]s per ]
| |
| ]
|
|- style="background: #c5dafc"
|
| ]<br>{{small|(often considered ])}}
| ''Giardia''
| ] spores<ref name="karpov">{{Cite journal|last1=Karpov|first1=Sergey|last2=Mamkaeva|first2=Maria A.|last3=Aleoshin|first3=Vladimir|last4=Nassonova|first4=Elena|last5=Lilje|first5=Osu|last6=Gleason|first6=Frank H.|date=2014-01-01|title=Morphology, phylogeny, and ecology of the aphelids (Aphelidea, Opisthokonta) and proposal for the new superphylum Opisthosporidia|journal= Frontiers in Microbiology|volume=5|pages=112|doi=10.3389/fmicb.2014.00112|pmc=3975115|pmid=24734027|doi-access=free}}</ref>
|- style="background: #ffe0e0"
| ]
| Small spore
|
|
|
|- style="background: #cbfdcb"
| ]
| Suckling animal
|
|
|
|- style="background: #ffe0e0"
| ]
| |
| Parasites with ]ous ]s and extrusive host-invasion apparatus
| Slime molds
| |
| ]
|
|- style="background: #cbfdcb" |- style="background: #ffd4fe"
| ]
| Yellow plant
| Diatoms
|
| Diatoms
|- style="background: #cbfdcb"
| ]
| Egg fungus<ref name="K&D" />{{rp|184}}
| Oomycetes
|
|
|- style="background: #ffe0e0"
| ] | ]
| '']''-like animals
|
| Complex ] containing amoebae, flagellates and ].<ref name="Adl 2019"/>
| |
| ]
|
|- style="background: #ffc8a6"
|
| ]
|
| '']''-like animals
|- style="background: #cbfdcb"
| Perkinsozoans, perkinsids
| ]
| Parasitic biflagellates, incomplete apical complex, formation of zoosporangia or undifferentiated cells via a hypha-like tube.<ref name="Adl 2019"/>
| Ray animal
| {{nts|26}}
| Radiolarians
| ]
|
|- style="background: #d6d6d6"
|
| ]
|- style="background: #ffe0e0"
| Devouring voracious protists<ref name="Provora"/>
| ]
| |
| Defined by ], free-living eukaryovorous heterotrophic biflagellates with ventral groove and extrusomes.<ref name="Provora">{{cite Q|Q115933632}}</ref>
|
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| False fungi
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| Defined by ], phagotrophic heterokonts with a helical ciliary transition zone.<ref name="Phagotrophic heterokonts">{{cite Q|Q28303534}}</ref>
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| Reticulopodia-bearing organisms<ref name="Endomyxa"/>
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| Feeding by ] (or ]) typically projected through various types of skeleton, closed mitosis.<ref name="Retaria">{{cite Q|Q28261633}}</ref>
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| '']''-like organisms<ref name="Telonemia"/>
| Telonemids<ref name="Arpakorses"/>
| ] pyriform biflagellates with a unique complex cytoskeleton, tubular cristae, tripartite mastigonemes, cortical alveoli.<ref name="Telonemia">{{cite journal |last1=Shalchian-Tabrizi |first1=K |last2=Eikrem |first2=W |last3=Klaveness |first3=D |last4=Vaulot |first4=D |last5=Minge |first5=M.A |last6=Le Gall |first6=F |last7=Romari |first7=K |last8=Throndsen |first8=J |last9=Botnen |first9=A |last10=Massana |first10=R |last11=Thomsen |first11=H.A |last12=Jakobsen |first12=K.S |title=Telonemia, a new protist phylum with affinity to chromist lineages |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |date=28 April 2006 |volume=273 |issue=1595 |pages=1833–1842 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2006.3515 |pmid=16790418 |pmc=1634789 }}</ref><ref name="Arpakorses">{{cite journal | last1=Tikhonenkov | first1=Denis V. | last2=Jamy | first2=Mahwash | last3=Borodina | first3=Anastasia S. | last4=Belyaev | first4=Artem O. | last5=Zagumyonnyi | first5=Dmitry G. | last6=Prokina | first6=Kristina I. | last7=Mylnikov | first7=Alexander P. | last8=Burki | first8=Fabien | last9=Karpov | first9=Sergey A. | title=On the origin of TSAR: morphology, diversity and phylogeny of Telonemia | journal=Open Biology | publisher=The Royal Society | volume=12 | issue=3 | year=2022 | issn=2046-2441 | doi=10.1098/rsob.210325| pmid=35291881 | pmc=8924772 | doi-access=free }}</ref>
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The Catalogue of Life includes ] and ] in kingdom Plantae,<ref name="CoLtree" /> but other systems consider these phyla part of Protista.<ref>{{cite journal| last = Corliss| first = John O.| date = 1984| title = The Kingdom Protista and its 45 Phyla| journal = BioSystems| volume = 17| pages = 87–176|doi=10.1016/0303-2647(84)90003-0}}</ref> The number of protist phyla varies greatly from one classification to the next. The Catalogue of Life includes ] and ] in kingdom Plantae,<ref name="CoLtree" /> but other systems consider these phyla part of Protista.<ref>{{cite journal| last = Corliss| first = John O.| date = 1984| title = The Kingdom Protista and its 45 Phyla| journal = BioSystems| volume = 17| issue = 2| pages = 87–176|doi=10.1016/0303-2647(84)90003-0| pmid = 6395918}}</ref> In addition, less popular classification schemes unite ] and ] under one phylum, ], and all alveolates except ] in one phylum ], later lowered in rank and included in a paraphyletic phylum ].<ref name="Cavalier-Smith 2022"/> Even within a phylum, other phylum-level ranks appear, such as the case of ] (diatoms) within ]. These differences became irrelevant after the adoption of a ] approach by the ISP, where taxonomic ranks are excluded from the classifications after being considered superfluous and unstable. Many authors prefer this usage, which lead to the Chromista-Protozoa scheme becoming obsolete.<ref name="Adl 2019"/>


=== Bacteria === === Bacteria ===
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Currently there are 29 phyla accepted by ] (LPSN)<ref name="LPSN phyla">{{cite web |url=http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/-classifphyla.html |title=List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature: Phyla |author=J.P. Euzéby |accessdate=2016-12-28}}</ref> Currently there are 41 bacterial phyla (not including "]") that have been validly published according to the ]<ref name="LPSN phyla">{{cite web | vauthors = Euzéby JP, ((Parte AC.)) | url = https://lpsn.dsmz.de/text/names-of-phyla | title = Names of phyla | access-date = April 3, 2022 | publisher = ] (LPSN)}}</ref>
# ]
# ], phenotipically diverse and mostly uncultured
# ], phenotypically diverse and mostly uncultured
# ], High-G+C Gram positive species
# ], High-G+C Gram positive species
# ], only 14 thermophilic genera, deep branching
# ], deep-branching
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# ] # ]
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# ], formerly candidate division OP5, ''Caldisericum exile'' is the sole representative
# ], Low-G+C Gram positive species, such as the spore-formers ] (aerobic) and ] (anaerobic)
# ], only 6 genera
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# ], only 7 genera, green sulphur bacteria
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# ], green non-sulphur bacteria
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# ], only 3 genera (''Chrysiogenes arsenatis'', ''Desulfurispira natronophila'', ''Desulfurispirillum alkaliphilum'')
# ], formerly candidate division OP5, ''Caldisericum exile'' is the sole representative
# ], also known as the blue-green algae
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# ], ''Deinococcus radiodurans'' and ''Thermus aquaticus'' are "commonly known" species of this phyla
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# ], green sulphur bacteria
# ], formerly candidate division Thermite Group 1
# ], green non-sulphur bacteria
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# ], only 3 genera (''Chrysiogenes arsenatis'', ''Desulfurispira natronophila'', ''Desulfurispirillum alkaliphilum'')
# ], Low-G+C Gram positive species, such as the spore-formers ] (aerobic) and ] (anaerobic)
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# ], ''Deinococcus radiodurans'' and ''Thermus aquaticus'' are "commonly known" species of this phyla
# ], formerly clade VadinBE97
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# ], formerly candidate division Thermite Group 1
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# ], the most known phyla, containing species such as '']'' or '']''
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# ], species include '']'', which causes Lyme disease
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# ], alternatively class ] in phylum ] (notable genus: '']'')
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# ], formerly clade VadinBE97
# ], deep branching
# ], notable genus: '']''
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# ], the most well-known phylum, containing species such as '']'' or '']''
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=== Archaea === === Archaea ===
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Currently there are 5 phyla accepted by ] (LPSN).<ref name="LPSN phyla" />
Currently there are 2 phyla that have been validly published according to the ]<ref name="LPSN phyla" />
# ], second most common archaeal phylum
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# ], most common archaeal phylum
# ], second most common archaeal phylum
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# "]", most common archaeal phylum
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# "]", ultra-small symbiotes, single known species


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High level taxonomic rank for organisms sharing a similar body plan For other uses, see Phyla (disambiguation).

LifeDomainKingdomPhylumClassOrderFamilyGenusSpecies
The hierarchy of biological classification's eight major taxonomic ranks. A kingdom contains one or more phyla. Intermediate minor rankings are not shown.

In biology, a phylum (/ˈfaɪləm/; pl.: phyla) is a level of classification or taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class. Traditionally, in botany the term division has been used instead of phylum, although the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants accepts the terms as equivalent. Depending on definitions, the animal kingdom Animalia contains about 31 phyla, the plant kingdom Plantae contains about 14 phyla, and the fungus kingdom Fungi contains about eight phyla. Current research in phylogenetics is uncovering the relationships among phyla within larger clades like Ecdysozoa and Embryophyta.

General description

The term phylum was coined in 1866 by Ernst Haeckel from the Greek phylon (φῦλον, "race, stock"), related to phyle (φυλή, "tribe, clan"). Haeckel noted that species constantly evolved into new species that seemed to retain few consistent features among themselves and therefore few features that distinguished them as a group ("a self-contained unity"): "perhaps such a real and completely self-contained unity is the aggregate of all species which have gradually evolved from one and the same common original form, as, for example, all vertebrates. We name this aggregate Stamm (Phylon)." In plant taxonomy, August W. Eichler (1883) classified plants into five groups named divisions, a term that remains in use today for groups of plants, algae and fungi. The definitions of zoological phyla have changed from their origins in the six Linnaean classes and the four embranchements of Georges Cuvier.

Informally, phyla can be thought of as groupings of organisms based on general specialization of body plan. At its most basic, a phylum can be defined in two ways: as a group of organisms with a certain degree of morphological or developmental similarity (the phenetic definition), or a group of organisms with a certain degree of evolutionary relatedness (the phylogenetic definition). Attempting to define a level of the Linnean hierarchy without referring to (evolutionary) relatedness is unsatisfactory, but a phenetic definition is useful when addressing questions of a morphological nature—such as how successful different body plans were.

Definition based on genetic relation

The most important objective measure in the above definitions is the "certain degree" that defines how different organisms need to be members of different phyla. The minimal requirement is that all organisms in a phylum should be clearly more closely related to one another than to any other group. Even this is problematic because the requirement depends on knowledge of organisms' relationships: as more data become available, particularly from molecular studies, we are better able to determine the relationships between groups. So phyla can be merged or split if it becomes apparent that they are related to one another or not. For example, the bearded worms were described as a new phylum (the Pogonophora) in the middle of the 20th century, but molecular work almost half a century later found them to be a group of annelids, so the phyla were merged (the bearded worms are now an annelid family). On the other hand, the highly parasitic phylum Mesozoa was divided into two phyla (Orthonectida and Rhombozoa) when it was discovered the Orthonectida are probably deuterostomes and the Rhombozoa protostomes.

This changeability of phyla has led some biologists to call for the concept of a phylum to be abandoned in favour of placing taxa in clades without any formal ranking of group size.

Definition based on body plan

A definition of a phylum based on body plan has been proposed by paleontologists Graham Budd and Sören Jensen (as Haeckel had done a century earlier). The definition was posited because extinct organisms are hardest to classify: they can be offshoots that diverged from a phylum's line before the characters that define the modern phylum were all acquired. By Budd and Jensen's definition, a phylum is defined by a set of characters shared by all its living representatives.

This approach brings some small problems—for instance, ancestral characters common to most members of a phylum may have been lost by some members. Also, this definition is based on an arbitrary point of time: the present. However, as it is character based, it is easy to apply to the fossil record. A greater problem is that it relies on a subjective decision about which groups of organisms should be considered as phyla.

The approach is useful because it makes it easy to classify extinct organisms as "stem groups" to the phyla with which they bear the most resemblance, based only on the taxonomically important similarities. However, proving that a fossil belongs to the crown group of a phylum is difficult, as it must display a character unique to a sub-set of the crown group. Furthermore, organisms in the stem group of a phylum can possess the "body plan" of the phylum without all the characteristics necessary to fall within it. This weakens the idea that each of the phyla represents a distinct body plan.

A classification using this definition may be strongly affected by the chance survival of rare groups, which can make a phylum much more diverse than it would be otherwise.

Known phyla

Animals

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Total numbers are estimates; figures from different authors vary wildly, not least because some are based on described species, some on extrapolations to numbers of undescribed species. For instance, around 25,000–27,000 species of nematodes have been described, while published estimates of the total number of nematode species include 10,000–20,000; 500,000; 10 million; and 100 million.

Protostome Bilateria Nephrozoa
Deuterostome
Basal/disputed Non-Bilateria
Vendobionta
Parazoa
Others
Phylum Meaning Common name Distinguishing characteristic Taxa described
Agmata Fragmented Calcareous conical shells 5 species, extinct
Annelida Little ring Segmented worms, annelids Multiple circular segments 22,000+ extant
Arthropoda Jointed foot Arthropods Segmented bodies and jointed limbs, with Chitin exoskeleton 1,250,000+ extant; 20,000+ extinct
Brachiopoda Arm foot Lampshells Lophophore and pedicle 300–500 extant; 12,000+ extinct
Bryozoa (Ectoprocta) Moss animals Moss animals, sea mats, ectoprocts Lophophore, no pedicle, ciliated tentacles, anus outside ring of cilia 6,000 extant
Chaetognatha Longhair jaw Arrow worms Chitinous spines either side of head, fins approx. 100 extant
Chordata With a cord Chordates Hollow dorsal nerve cord, notochord, pharyngeal slits, endostyle, post-anal tail approx. 55,000+
Cnidaria Stinging nettle Cnidarians Nematocysts (stinging cells) approx. 16,000
Ctenophora Comb bearer Comb jellies Eight "comb rows" of fused cilia approx. 100–150 extant
Cycliophora Wheel carrying Circular mouth surrounded by small cilia, sac-like bodies 3+
Echinodermata Spiny skin Echinoderms Fivefold radial symmetry in living forms, mesodermal calcified spines approx. 7,500 extant; approx. 13,000 extinct
Entoprocta Inside anus Goblet worms Anus inside ring of cilia approx. 150
Gastrotricha Hairy stomach Hairybellies Two terminal adhesive tubes approx. 690
Gnathostomulida Jaw orifice Jaw worms Tiny worms related to rotifers with no body cavity approx. 100
Hemichordata Half cord Acorn worms, hemichordates Stomochord in collar, pharyngeal slits approx. 130 extant
Kinorhyncha Motion snout Mud dragons Eleven segments, each with a dorsal plate approx. 150
Loricifera Armour bearer Brush heads Umbrella-like scales at each end approx. 122
Micrognathozoa Tiny jaw animals Accordion-like extensible thorax 1
Mollusca Soft Mollusks/molluscs Muscular foot and mantle round shell 85,000+ extant; 80,000+ extinct
Monoblastozoa
(Nomen inquirendum)
One sprout animals distinct anterior/posterior parts and being densely ciliated, especially around the "mouth" and "anus". 1
Nematoda Thread like Roundworms, threadworms, eelworms, nematodes Round cross section, keratin cuticle 25,000
Nematomorpha Thread form Horsehair worms, Gordian worms Long, thin parasitic worms closely related to nematodes approx. 320
Nemertea A sea nymph Ribbon worms Unsegmented worms, with a proboscis housed in a cavity derived from the coelom called the rhynchocoel approx. 1,200
Onychophora Claw bearer Velvet worms Worm-like animal with legs tipped by chitinous claws approx. 200 extant
Orthonectida Straight swimmer Parasitic, microscopic, simple, wormlike organisms 20
Petalonamae Shaped like leaves An extinct phylum from the Ediacaran. They are bottom-dwelling and immobile, shaped like leaves (frondomorphs), feathers or spindles. 3 classes, extinct
Phoronida Zeus's mistress Horseshoe worms U-shaped gut 11
Placozoa Plate animals Trichoplaxes, placozoans Differentiated top and bottom surfaces, two ciliated cell layers, amoeboid fiber cells in between 4+
Platyhelminthes Flat worm Flatworms Flattened worms with no body cavity. Many are parasitic. approx. 29,500
Porifera Pore bearer Sponges Perforated interior wall, simplest of all known animals 10,800 extant
Priapulida Little Priapus Penis worms Penis-shaped worms approx. 20
Proarticulata Before articulates An extinct group of mattress-like organisms that display "glide symmetry." Found during the Ediacaran. 3 classes, extinct
Dicyemida Lozenge animal Single anteroposterior axial celled endoparasites, surrounded by ciliated cells 100+
Rotifera Wheel bearer Rotifers Anterior crown of cilia approx. 3,500
Saccorhytida Saccus : "pocket" and "wrinkle" Saccorhytus is only about 1 mm (1.3 mm) in size and is characterized by a spherical or hemispherical body with a prominent mouth. Its body is covered by a thick but flexible cuticle. It has a nodule above its mouth. Around its body are 8 openings in a truncated cone with radial folds. Considered to be a deuterostome or an early ecdysozoan. 2 species, extinct
Tardigrada Slow step Water bears, moss piglets Microscopic relatives of the arthropods, with a four segmented body and head 1,000
Trilobozoa Three-lobed animal Trilobozoans A taxon of mostly discoidal organisms exhibiting tricentric symmetry. All are Ediacaran-aged 18 genera, extinct
Vetulicolia Ancient dweller Vetulicolians Might possibly be a subphylum of the chordates. Their body consists of two parts: a large front part and covered with a large "mouth" and a hundred round objects on each side that have been interpreted as gills or openings near the pharynx. Their posterior pharynx consists of 7 segments. 15 species, extinct
Xenacoelomorpha Strange hollow form Xenacoelomorphs Small, simple animals. Bilaterian, but lacking typical bilaterian structures such as gut cavities, anuses, and circulatory systems 400+
Total: 39 1,525,000

Plants

Main article: Plant

The kingdom Plantae is defined in various ways by different biologists (see Current definitions of Plantae). All definitions include the living embryophytes (land plants), to which may be added the two green algae divisions, Chlorophyta and Charophyta, to form the clade Viridiplantae. The table below follows the influential (though contentious) Cavalier-Smith system in equating "Plantae" with Archaeplastida, a group containing Viridiplantae and the algal Rhodophyta and Glaucophyta divisions.

The definition and classification of plants at the division level also varies from source to source, and has changed progressively in recent years. Thus some sources place horsetails in division Arthrophyta and ferns in division Monilophyta, while others place them both in Monilophyta, as shown below. The division Pinophyta may be used for all gymnosperms (i.e. including cycads, ginkgos and gnetophytes), or for conifers alone as below.

Since the first publication of the APG system in 1998, which proposed a classification of angiosperms up to the level of orders, many sources have preferred to treat ranks higher than orders as informal clades. Where formal ranks have been provided, the traditional divisions listed below have been reduced to a very much lower level, e.g. subclasses.

Land plants Viridiplantae
Green algae
Other algae (Biliphyta)
Division Meaning Common name Distinguishing characteristics Species described
Anthocerotophyta Anthoceros-like plants Hornworts Horn-shaped sporophytes, no vascular system 100–300+
Bryophyta Bryum-like plants, moss plants Mosses Persistent unbranched sporophytes, no vascular system approx. 12,000
Charophyta Chara-like plants Charophytes approx. 1,000
Chlorophyta (Yellow-)green plants Chlorophytes approx. 7,000
Cycadophyta Cycas-like plants, palm-like plants Cycads Seeds, crown of compound leaves approx. 100–200
Ginkgophyta Ginkgo-like plants Ginkgophytes Seeds not protected by fruit only 1 extant; 50+ extinct
Glaucophyta Blue-green plants Glaucophytes 15
Gnetophyta Gnetum-like plants Gnetophytes Seeds and woody vascular system with vessels approx. 70
Lycophyta Lycopodium-like plants

Wolf plants

Clubmosses Microphyll leaves, vascular system 1,290 extant
Angiospermae Seed container Flowering plants, angiosperms Flowers and fruit, vascular system with vessels 300,000
Marchantiophyta,

Hepatophyta

Marchantia-like plants

Liver plants

Liverworts Ephemeral unbranched sporophytes, no vascular system approx. 9,000
Polypodiophyta Polypodium-like plants
Ferns Megaphyll leaves, vascular system approx. 10,560
Picozoa Extremely small animals Picozoans, picobiliphytes 1
Pinophyta,

Coniferophyta

Pinus-like plants

Cone-bearing plant

Conifers Cones containing seeds and wood composed of tracheids 629 extant
Prasinodermophyta Prasinoderma-like plants Picozoans, picobiliphytes, biliphytes 8
Rhodophyta Rose plants Red algae Use phycobiliproteins as accessory pigments. approx. 7,000
Total: 14

Fungi

Main article: Fungi
Division Meaning Common name Distinguishing characteristics Species described
Ascomycota Bladder fungus Ascomycetes, sac fungi Tend to have fruiting bodies (ascocarp). Filamentous, producing hyphae separated by septa. Can reproduce asexually. 30,000
Basidiomycota Small base fungus Basidiomycetes, club fungi Bracket fungi, toadstools, smuts and rust. Sexual reproduction. 31,515
Blastocladiomycota Offshoot branch fungus Blastoclads Less than 200
Chytridiomycota Little cooking pot fungus Chytrids Predominantly Aquatic saprotrophic or parasitic. Have a posterior flagellum. Tend to be single celled but can also be multicellular. 1000+
Glomeromycota Ball of yarn fungus Glomeromycetes, AM fungi Mainly arbuscular mycorrhizae present, terrestrial with a small presence on wetlands. Reproduction is asexual but requires plant roots. 284
Microsporidia Small seeds Microsporans 1400
Neocallimastigomycota New beautiful whip fungus Neocallimastigomycetes Predominantly located in digestive tract of herbivorous animals. Anaerobic, terrestrial and aquatic. approx. 20
Zygomycota Pair fungus Zygomycetes Most are saprobes and reproduce sexually and asexually. approx. 1060
Total: 8

Phylum Microsporidia is generally included in kingdom Fungi, though its exact relations remain uncertain, and it is considered a protozoan by the International Society of Protistologists (see Protista, below). Molecular analysis of Zygomycota has found it to be polyphyletic (its members do not share an immediate ancestor), which is considered undesirable by many biologists. Accordingly, there is a proposal to abolish the Zygomycota phylum. Its members would be divided between phylum Glomeromycota and four new subphyla incertae sedis (of uncertain placement): Entomophthoromycotina, Kickxellomycotina, Mucoromycotina, and Zoopagomycotina.

Protists

Main article: Taxonomy of Protista

Kingdom Protista (or Protoctista) is included in the traditional five- or six-kingdom model, where it can be defined as containing all eukaryotes that are not plants, animals, or fungi. Protista is a paraphyletic taxon, which is less acceptable to present-day biologists than in the past. Proposals have been made to divide it among several new kingdoms, such as Protozoa and Chromista in the Cavalier-Smith system.

Protist taxonomy has long been unstable, with different approaches and definitions resulting in many competing classification schemes. Many of the phyla listed below are used by the Catalogue of Life, and correspond to the Protozoa-Chromista scheme, with updates from the latest (2022) publication by Cavalier-Smith. Other phyla are used commonly by other authors, and are adapted from the system used by the International Society of Protistologists (ISP). Some of the descriptions are based on the 2019 revision of eukaryotes by the ISP.

Stramenopiles "Chromista"
Alveolata
Rhizaria
"Hacrobia"
"Sarcomastigota" "Protozoa"
"Excavata"
Orphan groups
Phylum Meaning Common name Distinguishing characteristics Species described Image
Amoebozoa Amorphous animals Amoebozoans Presence of pseudopodia for amoeboid movement, tubular cristae. approx. 2,400
Apicomplexa Apical infolds Apicomplexans, sporozoans Mostly parasitic, at least one stage of the life cycle with flattened subpellicular vesicles and a complete apical complex, non-photosynthetic apicoplast. over 6,000
Apusozoa
(paraphyletic)
Apusomonas-like animals Gliding biciliates with two or three connectors between centrioles 32
Bigyra Two rings Stramenopiles with a double helix in ciliary transition zone
Cercozoa Flagellated animal Cercozoans Defined by molecular phylogeny, lacking distinctive morphological or behavioural characters.
Chromerida Chromera-like organisms Chrompodellids, chromerids, colpodellids Biflagellates, chloroplasts with four membranes, incomplete apical complex, cortical alveoli, tubular cristae. 8
Choanozoa
(paraphyletic)
Funnel animals Opisthokont protists Filose pseudopods; some with a colar of microvilli surrounding a flagellum approx. 300
Ciliophora Cilia bearers Ciliates Presence of multiple cilia and a cytostome. approx. 4,500
Cryptista Hidden Defined by molecular phylogeny, flat cristae. 246
Dinoflagellata Whirling flagellates Dinoflagellates Biflagellates with a transverse ribbon-like flagellum with multiple waves beating to the cell’s left and a longitudinal flagellum beating posteriorly with only one or few waves. 2,957 extant
955 fossil
Endomyxa Within mucus Defined by molecular phylogeny, typically plasmodial endoparasites of other eukaryotes.
Eolouka
(paraphyletic)
Early groove Heterotrophic biflagellates with ventral feeding groove. 23
Euglenozoa True eye animals Biflagellates, one of the two cilia inserted into an apical or subapical pocket, unique ciliary configuration. 2,037 extant
20 fossil
Ochrophyta,
Heterokontophyta
Ochre plants, heterokont plants Heterokont algae, stramenochromes, ochrophytes, heterokontophytes Biflagellates with tripartite mastigonemes, chloroplasts with four membranes and chlorophylls a and c, tubular cristae. 21,052 extant
2,262 fossil
Haptista Fasten Thin microtubule-based appendages for feeding (haptonema in haptophytes, axopodia in centrohelids), complex mineralized scales. 517 extant
1,205 fossil
Hemimastigophora Incomplete or atypical flagellates Hemimastigotes Ellipsoid or vermiform phagotrophs, two slightly spiraling rows of around 12 cilia each, thecal plates below the membrane supported by microtubules and rotationally symmetrical, tubular and saccular cristae. 10
Malawimonada Malawimonas-like organisms Malawimonads Small free-living bicilates with two kinetosomes, one or two vanes in posterior cilium. 3
Metamonada Middle monads Metamonads Anaerobic or microaerophilic, some without mitochondria; four kinetosomes per kinetid
Opisthosporidia
(often considered fungi)
Opisthokont spores Parasites with chitinous spores and extrusive host-invasion apparatus
Percolozoa Percolomonas-like animals Complex life cycle containing amoebae, flagellates and cysts.
Perkinsozoa Perkinsus-like animals Perkinsozoans, perkinsids Parasitic biflagellates, incomplete apical complex, formation of zoosporangia or undifferentiated cells via a hypha-like tube. 26
Provora Devouring voracious protists Defined by molecular phylogeny, free-living eukaryovorous heterotrophic biflagellates with ventral groove and extrusomes. 7
Pseudofungi False fungi Defined by molecular phylogeny, phagotrophic heterokonts with a helical ciliary transition zone. over 1,200
Retaria Reticulopodia-bearing organisms Feeding by reticulopodia (or axopodia) typically projected through various types of skeleton, closed mitosis. 10,000 extant
50,000 fossil
Sulcozoa
(paraphyletic)
Groove-bearing animals Aerobic flagellates (none, 1, 2 or 4 flagella) with dorsal semi-rigid pellicle of one or two submembrane dense layers, ventral feeding groove, branching ventral pseudopodia, typically filose. 40+
Telonemia Telonema-like organisms Telonemids Phagotrophic pyriform biflagellates with a unique complex cytoskeleton, tubular cristae, tripartite mastigonemes, cortical alveoli. 7
Total: 26, but see below.

The number of protist phyla varies greatly from one classification to the next. The Catalogue of Life includes Rhodophyta and Glaucophyta in kingdom Plantae, but other systems consider these phyla part of Protista. In addition, less popular classification schemes unite Ochrophyta and Pseudofungi under one phylum, Gyrista, and all alveolates except ciliates in one phylum Myzozoa, later lowered in rank and included in a paraphyletic phylum Miozoa. Even within a phylum, other phylum-level ranks appear, such as the case of Bacillariophyta (diatoms) within Ochrophyta. These differences became irrelevant after the adoption of a cladistic approach by the ISP, where taxonomic ranks are excluded from the classifications after being considered superfluous and unstable. Many authors prefer this usage, which lead to the Chromista-Protozoa scheme becoming obsolete.

Bacteria

Main article: Bacterial phyla

Currently there are 41 bacterial phyla (not including "Cyanobacteria") that have been validly published according to the Bacteriological Code

  1. Abditibacteriota
  2. Acidobacteriota, phenotypically diverse and mostly uncultured
  3. Actinomycetota, High-G+C Gram positive species
  4. Aquificota, deep-branching
  5. Armatimonadota
  6. Atribacterota
  7. Bacillota, Low-G+C Gram positive species, such as the spore-formers Bacilli (aerobic) and Clostridia (anaerobic)
  8. Bacteroidota
  9. Balneolota
  10. Bdellovibrionota
  11. Caldisericota, formerly candidate division OP5, Caldisericum exile is the sole representative
  12. Calditrichota
  13. Campylobacterota
  14. Chlamydiota
  15. Chlorobiota, green sulphur bacteria
  16. Chloroflexota, green non-sulphur bacteria
  17. Chrysiogenota, only 3 genera (Chrysiogenes arsenatis, Desulfurispira natronophila, Desulfurispirillum alkaliphilum)
  18. Coprothermobacterota
  19. Deferribacterota
  20. Deinococcota, Deinococcus radiodurans and Thermus aquaticus are "commonly known" species of this phyla
  21. Dictyoglomota
  22. Elusimicrobiota, formerly candidate division Thermite Group 1
  23. Fibrobacterota
  24. Fusobacteriota
  25. Gemmatimonadota
  26. Ignavibacteriota
  27. Kiritimatiellota
  28. Lentisphaerota, formerly clade VadinBE97
  29. Mycoplasmatota, notable genus: Mycoplasma
  30. Myxococcota
  31. Nitrospinota
  32. Nitrospirota
  33. Planctomycetota
  34. Pseudomonadota, the most well-known phylum, containing species such as Escherichia coli or Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  35. Rhodothermota
  36. Spirochaetota, species include Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme disease
  37. Synergistota
  38. Thermodesulfobacteriota
  39. Thermomicrobiota
  40. Thermotogota, deep-branching
  41. Verrucomicrobiota

Archaea

Main article: Archaea

Currently there are 2 phyla that have been validly published according to the Bacteriological Code

  1. Nitrososphaerota
  2. Thermoproteota, second most common archaeal phylum

Other phyla that have been proposed, but not validly named, include:

  1. "Euryarchaeota", most common archaeal phylum
  2. "Korarchaeota"
  3. "Nanoarchaeota", ultra-small symbiotes, single known species

See also

Notes

  1. "Wohl aber ist eine solche reale und vollkommen abgeschlossene Einheit die Summe aller Species, welche aus einer und derselben gemeinschaftlichen Stammform allmählig sich entwickelt haben, wie z. B. alle Wirbelthiere. Diese Summe nennen wir Stamm (Phylon)."

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