Animal phyla
editPhylum | Meaning | Common Name | Distinguishing characteristic | Species describedsip |
Acanthocephala | Thorny headed worms | Thorny-headed worms | Reversible spiny proboscis | about 756 Done |
Acoelomorpha | Without gut | Acoels | No mouth or alimentary canal(alimentary canal = digestive tract in digestive system) | Done |
Annelida | Little ring | Segmented worms | Multiple circular segment | about 16,300 modern |
Arthropoda | Jointed foot | Arthropods | Chitin exoskeleton | 1,134,000+ |
Brachiopoda | Arm foot | Lamp shells | Lophophore and pedicle | between 300 and 500 extant Done |
Bryozoa | Moss animals | Moss animals, sea mats | Lophophore, no pedicle, ciliated tentacles | about 5,000 living species Done |
Chaetognatha | Longhair jaw | Arrow worms | Chitinous spines either side of head, fins | about 100 modern species Done |
Chordata | Cord | Chordates | Hollow dorsal nerve cord, notochord, pharyngeal slits, endostyle, post-anal tail | about 100,000+ |
Cnidaria (Anthozoa + Jellyfish) | Stinging nettle | Coelenterates | Nematocysts (stinging cells) | about 11,000 |
Ctenophora | Comb bearer | Comb jellies | Eight "comb rows" of fused cilia | about 100 modern species Done |
Cycliophora | Wheel carrying | Symbion | Circular mouth surrounded by small cilia | at least 3 Done |
Echinodermata | Spiny skin | Echinoderms | Fivefold radial symmetry in living forms, mesodermal calcified spines | about 7,000 extant and 13,000 extinct species |
Echiura | Spine tail | Spoon worms | Set of hooks at posterior end | about 140 Done |
Entoprocta | Inside anus | Goblet worm | Anus inside ring of cilia | about 150 Done |
Gastrotricha | Hair stomach | Meiofauna | Two terminal adhesive tubes | about 690 Done |
Gnathostomulida | Jaw orifice | Jaw worms | about 100 Done | |
Hemichordata | Half cord | Acorn worms, pterobranchs | Stomochord in collar, pharyngeal slits | about 100 living species Done |
Kinorhyncha | Motion snout | Mud dragons | Eleven segments, each with a dorsal plate | about 150 Done |
Loricifera | Corset bearer | Brush heads | Umbrella-like scales at each end | about 122 Done |
Micrognathozoa | Tiny jaw animals | — | Accordion like extensible thorax | 1 Done |
Mollusca | Thin shell | Mollusks / molluscs | Muscular foot and mantle round shell | 112,000[1] |
Nematoda | Thread like | Round worms | Round cross section, keratin cuticle | 80,000–1,000,000 |
Nematomorpha | Thread form | Horsehair worms | about 320 Done | |
Nemertea | A sea nymph | Ribbon worms | about 1,200 Done | |
Onychophora | Claw bearer | Velvet worms | Legs tipped by chitinous claws | about 200 modern Done |
Orthonectida | Straight swim | Single layer of ciliated cells surrounding a mass of sex cells | about 20 Done | |
Phoronida | Zeus's mistress | Horseshoe worms | U-shaped gut | 20 Done |
Placozoa | Plate animals | 1 Done | ||
Platyhelminthes | Flat worms | Flat worms | about 25,000 Done | |
Porifera (Calcarea + /Demospongea + Hexactinellida) | Pore bearer | Sponges | Perforated interior wall | over 5,000 modern |
Priapulida | Little Priapus | 16 Done | ||
Rhombozoa | Lozenge animal | — | Single axial cell surrounded by ciliated cells | 75 Done |
Rotifera | Wheel bearer | Rotifers | Anterior crown of cilia | about 2,000 Done |
Sipuncula | Small tube | Peanut worms | Mouth surrounded by invertible tentacles | 144–320 Done |
Tardigrada | Slow step | Water bears | Four segmented body and head | 1,000+ Done |
Xenoturbellida | Strange flatworm | — | Ciliated deuterostome | 2 Done |
Total: 36 | 2,000,000- |
Fungal divisions
edit- Blastocladiomycota Done
- Chytridiomycota Done
- Glomeromycota Done
- Microsporidia Done
- Neocallimastigomycota Done
Dikarya (inc. Deuteromycota)
Subphyla Incertae sedis
- Entomophthoromycotina Done
- Kickxellomycotina Done
- Mucoromycotina Done
- Zoopagomycotina Done
Plant divisions
editDivision | Meaning | Common name | Distinguishing characteristics |
Anthocerotophyta | Flower-horn plants | Hornworts | Horn-shaped sporophytes, no vascular system Done |
Bryophyta | Moss plants | Mosses | Persistent unbranched sporophytes, no vascular system (per Template talk:Automatic taxobox) |
Marchantiophyta | Marchantia plants | Liverworts | Ephemeral unbranched sporophytes, no vascular system (per Template talk:Automatic taxobox) |
Lycopodiophyta | Wolf foot plants | Clubmosses & Spikemosses | Microphyll leaves, vascular system |
Pteridophyta | Fern plants | Ferns & Horsetails | Prothallus gametophytes, vascular system |
Pteridospermatophyta | Fern with seeds plant | Seed ferns | Only known from fossils, mostly Devonian, ranking in dispute Done |
Coniferophyta | Sap/pitch plants | Conifers | Cones containing seeds and wood composed of tracheids |
Cycadophyta | Palm plants | Cycads | Seeds, crown of compound leaves |
Ginkgophyta | Ginkgo plants | Ginkgo, Maidenhair | Seeds not protected by fruit (single species) Done |
Gnetophyta | Gnetophytes | Seeds and woody vascular system with vessels | |
Anthophyta (or Magnoliophyta) | Flower plant | Flowering plants | Flowers and fruit, vascular system with vessels |
Bacterial "phyla"
edit- Acidobacteria, phenotipically diverse, but mostly uncultured
- Actinobacteria, High-G+C Gram positive species, notable genera/species include Streptomyces (antibiotic production), Propionibacterium acnes (odorous skin commensal) and Propionobacter shermanii(holes in Emmental)
- Aquificae, only 14 thermophilic genera, deep branching
- Bacteroidetes, some opportunistic pathogens or human gut commensal, urban myth as a bacterial weight loss powder
- Caldiserica, formerly candidate division OP5, Caldisericum exile is the sole representative
- Chlamydiae, only 6 genera of obbligate intracellular pathogens, such as Chlamydia trachomatis (chlamidia infection) Done
- Chlorobi, only 7 genera of obligately anaerobic photoautotrophic bacteria, known colloquially as Green sulfur bacteria
- Chloroflexi,diverse phylum including thermophiles and halorespirers, known colloquially as Green non-sulfur bacteria
- Chrysiogenetes, only 3 genera (Chrysiogenes arsenatis, Desulfurispira natronophila, Desulfurispirillum alkaliphilum) Done (not sure about these 3 spp tho)
- Cyanobacteria, major photosynthetic clade believed to have caused Earth's oxygen atmosphere, also known as the blue-green algae
- Deferribacteres
- Deinococcus-Thermus, Deinococcus radiodurans and Thermus aquaticus are "commonly known" species of this phyla
- Dictyoglomi Done
- Elusimicrobia Done
- Fibrobacteres Done
- Firmicutes, Low-G+C Gram positive species most often spore-forming, in two/three classes: the class Bacilli such as the Bacillus spp. (e.g. B. anthracis, a pathogen, and B.subtilis, biotechnologically useful), lactic acid bacteria (e.g. Lactobacillus casei in yoghurt,Oenococcus oeni in malolactic fermentation, Streptococcus pyogenes, pathogen), the class Clostridia of mostly anaerobic sulphite-reducing saprophytic species, includes the genus Clostridium (e.g. the pathogens C. dificile,C. tetani,C. botulinum and the biotech C. acetobutylicum)
- Fusobacteria Done
- Gemmatimonadetes Done
- Lentisphaerae Done
- Nitrospira Done
- Planctomycetes Done
- Proteobacteria, the most know phyla, containing most of the "commonly known" species, such as Escherichia coli or Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Spirochaetes Done
- Synergistetes Done
- Tenericutes, alternatively class Mollicutes in phylum Firmicutes (notable genus: Mycoplasma)
- Thermodesulfobacteria Done
- Thermomicrobia Done
- Thermotogae, deep branching Done
- Verrucomicrobia Done
- ^ Feldkamp, S. (2002) Modern Biology. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, USA. (pp. 725)