The rank below phylum or division, refining a lineage's shared body plan further: Mammalia's warm blooded, milk producing animals, Aves's feathered egg layers, Insecta's six legged arthropods. Each class here groups every order that shares its class's defining physical and reproductive traits.
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kingdom, phylum or division, class, order, family, genus, and species
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