Taxonomic Hierarchy

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McKenna and Bell (1997) recognized 26 sub-ordinal ranks to the taxonomic hierarchy. These are listed below. You are not expected to know all of these, but should learn where those underlined fall within the hierarchy since these are in fairly common use and we will use many of them.

Class
 Subclass
  Infraclass
   Superlegion
    Legion
     Sublegion
      Infralegion
       Supercohort
        Cohort
         Magnorder
          Superorder
           Grandorder
            Mirorder
             Order
              Suborder
               Infraorder
                Parvorder
                 Superfamily
                  Family
                   Subfamily
                    Tribe
                     Subtribe
                      Infratribe
                       Genus
                        Subgenus
                         Species
                          Subspecies
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Last Update: 11 Jan 2008