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Under construction Taxon: Kingdom Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
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Unavailable original nameLinnaeus, C. 1735. Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Theodorum Haak..: [1]
Unavailable original rank
Original nameLinnaeus, C. 1758. Syst. nat., ed. 10. 1..: 9
Original rank
Original spelling

Variants

Unavailable nameAnimalia (Kingdom) nom. inval.
Unranked nameAnimalia C. Linnaeus, 1758
Different rankAnimalia (Suprakingdom) (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
GradeMetazoa (Grade)

Synonyms

SynonymMetazoa Haeckel, 1874[E.J. van Nieukerken, 2010: 111]
SynonymMetazoa (Kingdom) Haeckel, 1874[T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998: 234; 208]
SynonymZoobiota (Kingdom) Jeffrey, 1971
IncludingDiploblastica (Subkingdom) Haeckel, 1866
IncludingEumetazoa (Subkingdom) Butschli, 1910
IncludingEumetazoa (Branch) Butschli, 1910
IncludingMetazoa (Subkingdom) Haeckel, 1874
IncludingRadiata (Subkingdom) (Linnaeus, 1758) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
IncludingRadiata (Superphylum)
Alternative nameRegnum Animale (Kingdom) C. Linnaeus, 1758
Former nameAnimale Regnum (Kingdom) nom. inval.
Former nameRegnum Animale (Kingdom) C. Linnaeus, 1758
Former nameRegnum Animale (Kingdom) nom. inval.
Vernacular nameanimal (Kingdom)
Vernacular nameanimal-kingdom (Kingdom)
Vernacular nameanimaux

Phylogeny

Holophyletic[Cavalier-Smith, T. 1998. Biol. Rev. 73.: 206, 214]

Taxonomic positions

Subsequent positionEukaryota (Domain) Chatton, 1925

Vernacular Names

Dutch:dieren; dierenrijk
English:animals

Number of Subtaxa

2013Available in Systema Naturae 200033p;91c;521o;6207f;59,825g;138,394s;13,557ss;185v; ‡3o;17f;110g;440s;75ss; †6p;69c;397o;2000f;9067g;3776s;111ss;1v
1989-presentSystema Naturae 2000[33p];~1,487,135s
2011Z.-Q. Zhang: 8, 940[39]p;1,552,319[1,527,660]s; †1p;24,659s
2005D. Grimaldi & M.S. Engel[35p];>1,000,000s
2004T. Cavalier-Smith: 1252[22p]
2002R.S.K. Barnes[10Sp]
20009474s
1998T. Cavalier-Smith23p
1995C. Nielsen33p
1993T. Cavalier-Smith: 955[2sk]
1990R.C. Brusca & G.J. Brusca[36p]
198533p
1982W.J. Bock[38p;98c];>1,000,000s
1982L. Margulis & K.V. Schwartz32p
18665p
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