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
Last Update: 11 Jan 2008