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animals
Animalia Linnaeus, 1758

system Opisthokonta

Scientific synonyms

Metazoa
Polycytozoa

Other names

= multicellural animals

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Temporal range:Ediacaran – recent
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Images

Lanius collurio - Red-backed Shrike

Lanius collurio - Red-backed Shrike

Author: Ivan Mikšík

Vestia gulo

Hyla arborea - European Treefrog

Hyla arborea - European Treefrog

Author: Michal Maňas

Functions restricted to taxon Animalia

Important groups

Porifera - sponges, Cnidaria - anemones, corals and jellyfish, Platyhelminthes - flatworms, Nematoda - nematodes, Annelida - annelids, Arthropoda - arthropods, Bryozoa, Brachiopoda - lamp shells, Mollusca - mollusks, Echinodermata - echinoderms, Chordata - chordates, Tentaculita

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Glycymeris keenae Willett, 1943
Arcopsis solida Sowerby, 1833
Bentharca Verrill & Bush, 1898
Bathyarca nucleator (W. H. Dall, 1908)
Bathyarca glacialis Gray, 1824
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Included taxa

Number of records: 10

subregnum Parazoa
subregnum Agnotozoa Moore et al., 1952
subregnum Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910
Ediacaran – recent

Unplaced taxa

family Dendrogrammatidae Just, Kristensen & Olesen, 2014 inc.sed.

Fossil taxa

phylum Problematica † inc.sed.
class Chitinozoa Eisenack, 1931 †
Ordovician – Devonian
class Coeloscleritophora - coeloscleritophorans † inc.sed.
Cambrian – Ordovician
class Palaeoscolecida Conway Morris & Robinson, 1986 † inc.sed.
Cambrian: Lower Cambrian – Silurian: Upper Silurian
class Tentaculita Bouček, 1964 † inc.sed.
Ordovician: Lower Ordovician – Jurassic: Middle Jurassic
family Cloudinidae Hahn & Pflug, 1985 † inc.sed.

Links and literature

EN Tree of Life [Animals]

Tree of Life [http://tolweb.org/tree]
EN Wikipedia Articles [Animal]

Wikipedia Articles [https://en.wikipedia.org]
EN The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [2]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [https://www.irmng.org] [as Animalia]
Data retrieved on: 29 November 2019
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Data source info

de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.): Fauna Europaea
Vyšší hierarchický systém zvířat
"Taxonomic Hierarchy version [3.6]" http://www.faunaeur.org, retrieved: [June, 21, 2004]
[Data retrieved on: 21 August 2004]

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inc.sed. incertae sedis - uncertain placement within this taxon

† extinct taxon



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