What are the phylum of Kingdom Animalia?In: Animal Life |
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The Phyla of Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Common Name Number of Species Porifera sponges 10,000 Symplasma glass sponges 500 Placozoa placozoan 1 Cnidaria hydroids, jelly fish, sea anemones, corals 10,000 Ctenophora comb jellies 100 Rhombozoa small; obscure parasites 75 Platyhelminthes flatworms 25,000 Orthonecta orthonectidans 10 Gnathostomula gnathostomulans 100 Gastrotricha gastrotrichs 450 Nematoda roundworms 20,000 Nematomorpha nematomorphs 325 Kinorhyncha mud-dragons 150 Loricifera loriciferans 100 Priapula priapulans 17 Rotifera rotifers 1800 Acanthocephala thorny-headed worms 1000 Onychophora velvet worms 70 Uniramia uniramians or ateloceratans 1,000,000 These Phyla togther make up a group traditionally called Arthropoda, because they share a hardened exoskleton and jointed legs. Chelicerata chelicerates (98% arachnids) 63,000 Crustacea crustaceans 40,000 Pentastoma tongue worms 100 Tardigrada water bears 600 Mollusca molluscs 100,000 Sipuncula peanut worms 350 Echiura echiuroid worms 150 Annelida segmented worms 15,000 Pogonophora beard worms 150 Nemertea nemertine worms 900 Entoprocta entoprocts or kamptozoans 150 Cycliophora cycliophoran 1 Phorona phoronans 20 Brachiopoda brachiopods 350 (25,000 fossil) Bryozoa bryozoans or ectoprocta or polyzoa 4300 Chaetognatha arrow-worms 90 Echinodermata star fish, sea cucumbers, sea urchins 7000 Hemichordata hemichordates 90 Chordata chordates (including ourselves!) 42,500 http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~nhi708/classify/animalia/index.html
It depends on who is doing the classifying, how many kingdoms they propose, and what they use to classify the individual organism. But the above table seems to include what most accept as the major Phyla or phylums of the Kingdom Animalia.
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