Wikipedia:WikiProject Biology/Taxonomy


The hierarchy of biological classification's eight major taxonomic ranks, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia. Intermediate minor rankings are not shown. This diagram implies 3 Domains / 6 Kingdoms (Woese et al. 1990^[1]): Archaea, Domain (and Kingdom) Eukarya, Domain Protista, Kingdom Fungi, Kingdom Animalia, Kingdom Plantae, Kingdom Bacteria, Domain (and Kingdom)

^ Carl R. Woese, Otto Kandler, Mark L. Wheelis: "Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 87(12):4576-9. doi:10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576