Major lineages of animal, bacterial and protist life below kingdom, each defined by a fundamental shared body plan: Chordata's notochord, Arthropoda's jointed exoskeleton, Mollusca's soft unsegmented body. Botanical classification calls this same rank Division; see the Division subcategory for the plant kingdom's equivalent groupings.
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kingdom, phylum or division, class, order, family, genus, and species
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