Taxonomy

Chucky

Does anybody know of a reliable list of the Phyla that make up the Animal Kingdom? I have searched the world-wide-web but am disappointed at lack of concrete-listings.

Even if you know of a book that would be good.


Kevster

MaxBax

There are a couple of places, I can't remember any right now this minute but i'll try and find some. Remember that taxonomy is a dynamic process and slighlty artifical so they change from time to time and not everything is universally accepted.

for what reasons do you want info on taxonomy?

Chucky

True, and that's what makes finding a concrete listing hard (If not impossible). It's a pity in a way that there is no group to represent all Zoologists/Taxonomists that could standardise the information for all the kingdoms of life.

My wishes for acquiring the information are just out of personal interest. I mean, we touched on the ten 'main' phyla in college but I was so interested that I wanted to learn more.

Protozoa, Porifera, Coelenterata, Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Annelida, Arthropoda, Mollusca, Echinodermata, and Chordata.


*Edit* - Don't know if you are interested but I dound a cool Phylum on my searches: Tardigrada. they are quite cute.

MaxBax

Yeah, I don't think you fully understand.

There are no concrete lists because people find out new things every day and the lists get changed.

The only important taxons are, imo, Phylum, genus and species.

Chucky

I do understand but it's frustrating for an eager person wishing to learn more - We have to sift through all of the current disorganised data available. I mean, groups have different names from different sources and some sources use SuperPhyla and SubPhyla.

Anyway, if you come across a good list will you pass on the details.

MaxBax

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/

how's that?

what course are you doing and where?

Chucky

Wow, cool - I didn't come across that web-site on my searches. It is quite advanced. Thank you.


I'm only doing a cert in Applied Biology / Chemistry. I've previously done Computer Science but didn't want to be doing that for the rest of my life.

MaxBax

ah very good. throw up a few questions etc. if you have any i'm sure someone will answer.

Tree

http://tolweb.org/tree/
this is one of my fav pages, contains links and articles arranged according to the various branches

Chucky

That's interesting Tree - I haven't seen the phyla arranged in higher groups in that way previously. Thanks fdor the link.