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Hierarchy of ranks Zoology įor some clades covered by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, several additional classifications are sometimes used, although not all of these are officially recognized. Passeriformes), but orders of mammals and invertebrates are not so consistent (e.g. Orders of birds and fishes use the Latin suffix -(i)formes meaning 'having the form of' (e.g. Orders of plants, fungi, and algae use the suffix -ales (e.g.

For some groups of organisms, their orders may follow consistent naming schemes. The name of an order is usually written with a capital letter. Some taxa are accepted almost universally, while others are recognized only rarely. There are no hard rules that a taxonomist needs to follow in describing or recognizing an order. Often there is no exact agreement, with different taxonomists each taking a different position. What does and does not belong to each order is determined by a taxonomist, as is whether a particular order should be recognized at all. An order can also be defined as a group of related families. An immediately higher rank, superorder, is sometimes added directly above order, with suborder directly beneath order. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and recognized by the nomenclature codes. It is classified between family and class. Order ( Latin: ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. Intermediate minor rankings are not shown.


The hierarchy of biological classification's eight major taxonomic ranks.
