In the history of the Linnaean classification system, many taxa (e.g. species, genera, families, and higher taxonomic ranks) have become defunct or obsolete, and are no longer used.
Kingdoms
Animals
| Taxon |
Classification(s) used |
Contents
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| Class Vermes
|
Linnaeus
|
Worms
|
| Order Agriae
|
Linnaeus (1748) |
Anteaters and pangolins
|
| Order Anthropomorpha
|
Linnaeus (1740, 1748) |
1740: Primates, anteaters, and sloths
1748: Primates and sloths
|
| Order Belluae
|
Linnaeus (1758, 1766) |
1758: Horses and hippopotamuses
1766: as above plus pigs, and rhinoceroses
|
| Order Bestiae
|
Linnaeus (1758) |
Pigs, armadillos, hedgehogs, moles, shrews, and opossums
|
| Order Bruta
|
Linnaeus (1758, 1766) |
1758: Elephants, manatees, sloths, anteaters, pangolins
1766: as above plus armadillos
|
| Suborder Gravigrada
|
|
|
| Order Insectivora
|
Several
|
Hedgehog, shrews, moles, tenrecs, golden moles, otter shrews, solenodons, and sometimes elephant-shrews, treeshrews, and colugos
|
| Order Jumenta
|
Linnaeus (1740, 1748) |
1740: Shrews, horses, elephants, hippopotamuses, and pigs
1748: as above plus rhinoceroses
|
| Order Lipotyphla
|
|
|
| Order and/or Suborder Pachydermata
|
|
Perissodactyls, elephants, hippopotamuses, peccaries, pigs, and sometimes camels
|
| Order Quaternates
|
Blainville (1839) |
Gravigrada, Pachydermata and Ruminantia
|
| Order Secundates
|
Blainville (1839) |
Chiroptera, Insectivora and Carnivora
|
| Order Tertiates
|
Blainville (1839) |
Glires
|
| Superorder Archonta
|
|
Primates, Bats, Colugos, Treeshrews, and sometimes Elephant shrews
|
| Genus Simia
|
|
Apes (but not humans) and monkeys
|
| Genus Tylognathus
|
Heckel
|
A variety of freshwater ray finned fish
|
| Genus Brochis
|
Cope
|
Three Catfish in the family Callichthyidae
|
Protists
