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Phylum Porifera
Also known as sponges.
Phylum Ctenophora
Known as comb jellies.
Phylum Cnidaria
Includes classes such as Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa, Cubozoa, and Anthozoa.
Class Hydrozoa
Contains hydras and Portuguese man-of-war.
Class Scyphozoa
Includes jellyfish, medusa jellies, and sea nettles.
Class Cubozoa
Comprises box jellies and sea wasps.
Class Anthozoa
Includes sea anemones, most corals, and sea fans.
Phylum Platyhelminthes
Known as flatworms, which include four classes.
Class Turbellaria
Free-living flatworms such as Planaria.
Class Monogenaea
Primarily ectoparasites of fish.
Class Trematoda
Includes trematodes like blood flukes (Shistosoma).
Class Cestoda
Includes tapeworms such as beef and pork tapeworms (Taenia).
Phylum Ectoprocta
Also referred to as bryozoans or moss animals.
Phylum Brachiopoda
Known as lamp shells.
Phylum Nemertea
Commonly known as ribbon worms.
Phylum Annelida
Known as segmented worms, comprising three classes.
Class Oligochaeta
Includes earthworms.
Class Polychaeta
Known as polychaetes.
Class Hirudinea
Includes leeches.
Phylum Mollusca
Contains four classes including chitons, clams, and octopuses.
Class Polyplacophora
Known as chitons.
Class Bivalvia
Includes clams, oysters, scallops, and mussels.
Class Gastropoda
Includes abalone, limpets, conchs, nudibranchs, snails, and slugs.
Class Cephalopoda
Includes squid, octopus, nautilus, and cuttlefish.
Phylum Nematoda
Known as roundworms, including Trichinella and heartworm (Dirofilaria).
Phylum Arthropoda
Includes various subphyla such as Trilobita and Cheliceriformes.
Subphylum Trilobita
Includes trilobites.
Subphylum Cheliceriformes
Comprises spiders, mites, ticks, scorpions, and horseshoe crabs.
Subphylum Myriapoda
Includes millipedes and centipedes.
Subphylum Crustacea
Contains lobsters, crabs, barnacles, amphipods, and isopods.
Subphylum Hexapoda
Includes insects such as flies, beetles, and butterflies.
Phylum Echinodermata
Includes classes such as Asteroidea, Ophiuroidea, and Holothuroidea.
Class Asteroidea
Includes sea stars.
Class Ophiuroidea
Includes brittle stars.
Class Echinoidea
Comprises sea urchins and sand dollars.
Class Crinoidea
Includes sea lilies and feather stars.
Class Holothuroidea
Includes sea cucumbers.
Phylum Chordata
Divided into subphyla such as Urochordata and Vertebrata.
Subphylum Urochordata
Known as tunicates or sea squirts.
Subphylum Cephalochordata
Includes lancelets.
Subphylum Vertebrata
Includes classes such as Cyclostomata and Gnathostomes.
Cyclostomata
Refers to jawless vertebrates, including hagfish and lamprey.
Class Myxini
Known as hagfish.
Class Petromyzontida
Known as lamprey.
Gnathostomes
Jawed vertebrates, which include various classes.
Class Chondrichthyes
Includes sharks, rays, and chimaeras.
Osteichthyes
Known as boney fishes, including ray-finned fishes and lungfish.
Class Actinopterygii
Includes ray-finned fishes.
Class Actinistia
Known as coelacanths.
Class Dipnoi
Includes lungfish.
Tetrapoda
Refers to four-limbed vertebrates including amphibians.
Class Amphibia
Includes salamanders, frogs, and caecilians.
Amniota
Vertebrates with amniotic eggs, including reptiles and mammals.
Class Reptilia
Includes turtles, crocodiles, dinosaurs, birds, and squamates.
Class Mammalia
Includes monotremes, marsupials, and eutherians.
