Glossary of Phylogenetic Taxa and Species

• metazoa - multi-cellular animals
• bilateria - animals with axis of symmetry
• eubilateria - bilaterians with embryonic cavity
• protostomes - animals where the first opening becomes the mouth
• chaetognatha - arrow worms
• nemerteans - ribbon worms
• platyhelminths - flatworms
  Schistosoma mansoni (blood flukes)
• ctenophora - sea gooseberry and related
• nematoda - thread worms
  Caenorhabditis elegans
• arthropoda - animals with subdivided legs including insects
  Tribolium castaneum (beetle)
• diptera - flys and midges
  Anopheles gambia (mosquito), Apis mellifera (homey bee), Bombyx mori (moth), Drosophila (fruitfly)
• deuterostome - animals where ur-mouth gets anus
  Strongylocentrotus pupuratus (red see urchin)
• urochordates - sea squirts and relatives
  Ciona intestinalis (sea squirt), Oikopleura dioica (tunicate)
• vertebrates - animals with backbone
• gnathostomata - animals with jaw
• tetrapoda - animals with four feets
• amniotes - animals with belly button (mammals, birds, reptiles)
  Gallus gallus (chicken), Xenopus tropicalis (frog)
• Mammals - placental mammels and marsupials
  Monodelphis domestica (opossum)
• eutherian mammals - placental mammals
  Bos taurus (cow), Canis familiaris (dog), Homo spaiens (human), Pan troglodytes (chimpanzee), Rattus norwegicus (rat)
• actinopterygians - ray fined fishes
• teleosts - largest subgroup of ray finned fishs
  Danio rerio (zebrafish), Fugu rubripes (pufferfish), Oryzias latipes (rice fish)