[organisms] see Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
   Kingdom Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
     Branch Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910 see [unranked] Eumetazoa Bütschli, 1910
       Division Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 see Subkingdom Bilateria Hatschek, 1888
         Subdivision Deuterostomia Grobben, 1908 see Infrakingdom Deuterostomia Grobben, 1908
           Phylum Chordata Bateson, 1885 - chordates
             Subphylum Vertebrata Cuvier, 1812 - vertebrates see Infraphylum Vertebrata Lamarck, 1801
               Superclass Tetrapoda Goodrich, 1930 - tetrapods see Clade Tetrapoda Hatschek & Cori 1896 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988], nom. cl. inval.
                 Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
                   Subclass Prototheria Gill, 1872 - monotremes
                     Infraclass Ornithodelphia (de Blainville, 1834) see Subclass Prototheria Gill, 1872
                       Order Monotremata Bonaparte, 1837 - monotremes
                         Genus Tachyglossus Illiger, 1811 - short-nosed echidna
                           Tachyglossus aculeatus (Shaw, 1792) - short-beaked echidna