Work in progress

On this experimental page I am trying out an idea for a vast table of the life taxonomy, following the three-domain system of Carl Woese and with data from Wikispecies. Obviously, the amount of data is vast, and extracting it would have to be automated. The present population of the table is just a sample to give me the idea what it might look like. I need to find out what the Wikispecies people have for this already, but so far I haven't found an inclusive table or other page that gives an overview in one go of the vast scale, and the relative positions of the various branches of the tree of life. There are other scientific and educational websites unrelated to Wiki dedicated to the subject also and there is no point reinventing the wheel. However as a retired technical communicator I thought a dummy run to see what might be possible was worth a limited trial.


The following ranks appear in various taxonomies. Some have several names and the first name is the one used in the table below.

  • Superregnum, superkingdom, domain, or empire
  • Regnum, Kingdom
  • Subregnum, subkingdom
  • Branch
  • Superphylum
  • Phylum, Divisio
  • Infraphylum
  • Microphylum
  • Superclassis, Superclass
  • Classis, Class
  • Subclassis, Subclass
  • Infraclassis, Infraclass
  • Parvclassis, Parvclass
  • Cohort
  • Legion
  • Magnordo, Magnorder
  • Superordo, Superorder
  • Ordo, Order
  • Subordo, Suborder
  • Infraordo, Infraorder
  • Parvordo, Parvorder
  • Superfamilia, Superfamily
  • Familia, Family
  • Subfamilia, Subfamily
  • Tribe
  • Subtribe
  • Genus
  • Subgenus


Living species taxonomy
Superregnum Regnum Subregnum Branch Superphylum Phylum Infraphylum Microphylum Superclassis Classis Subclassis Infraclassis Parvclassis Cohort Legion Magnordo Superordo Ordo Subordo Infraordo Parvordo Superfamilia Familia Subfamilia Tribe Subtribe Genus Subgenus
Archaea Crenarchaeota
Euryarchaeota
Korarchaeota
Nanoarchaeota
Bacteria Bacteria Incertae sedis
Acidobacteria
Actinobacteria
Aquificae
Bacteroidetes
Chlamydiae
Chlorobi
Chloroflexi
Chrysiogenetes
Cyanobacteria
Deferribacteres
Deinococcus-Thermus
Dictyoglomi
Fibrobacteres
Firmicutes
Fusobacteria
Gemmatimonadetes
Nitrospirae
Planctomycetes
Proteobacteria
Spirochaetes
Thermodesulfobacteria
Thermotogae
Verrucomicrobia Eukarya Protista Biciliata
Sarcomastigota
Incertae sedis Protista
Fungi Ascomycota
Basidiomycota
Chytridiomycota
Glomeromycota
Zygomycota
Anamorphic fungi
Plantae
Animalia