Home›Phylum›All PhylumBrowse ByAll PhylumReference and ClassificationVerifiedMajor 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.FactsAll PhylumSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonTaxonomic Rank OrderWell-attested3 1All PhylumFilter Results86 entriesTaxonomic RankAllPhylum / Division (86)Parent Taxon (Taxonomy Tree)AllAnimalia (15)Archaea (2)Bacteria (5)Fungi (5)Protista (5)Common GroupAllAlgal and Protist Phyla (12)Archaeal Phyla (8)Bacterial Phyla (24)Fungus Phyla (8)Major Animal Phyla (9)Minor Animal Phyla (24)Everyday GroupAllAlgal and Protist Phyla (12)Archaeal Phyla (8)Bacterial Phyla (24)Fungus Phyla (8)Major Animal Phyla (9)Minor Animal Phyla (24)Geographic DistributionAllAntarctica (1)Australia (1)Australia (1)Central America (1)Chile (1)Gabon (1)Mexico (1)New Zealand (1)Northeast India (1)Seychelles (1)South Africa (1)South America (1)Southeast Asia (1)Southern Africa (1)The Antarctic (3)The Arctic (2)The British Isles (1)The Caribbean (1)The Mediterranean (1)White Sea (1)Living or ExtinctAllYes (86)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 50AcanthocephalaPhylumAcidobacteriaPhylumActinobacteriaPhylumAgmataPhylumAigarchaeotaPhylumAmoebozoaPhylumAnnelidaPhylumApicomplexaPhylumAquificaePhylumArthropodaPhylumAscomycotaPhylumBacteroidetesPhylumBasidiomycotaPhylumBathyarchaeotaPhylumBlastocladiomycotaPhylumBrachiopodaPhylumBryozoaPhylumCercozoaPhylumChaetognathaPhylumChlamydiaePhylumChlorobiPhylumChloroflexiPhylumChlorophytaPhylumChordataPhylumChytridiomycotaPhylumCiliophoraPhylumCnidariaPhylumCrenarchaeotaPhylumCtenophoraPhylumCyanobacteriaPhylumCycliophoraPhylumDeferribacteresPhylumDeinococcus-ThermusPhylumDictyoglomiPhylumDicyemidaPhylumDinoflagellataPhylumEchinodermataPhylumElusimicrobiaPhylumEntoproctaPhylumEuglenozoaPhylumEuryarchaeotaPhylumFibrobacteresPhylumFirmicutesPhylumFusobacteriaPhylumFusobacteriotaPhylumGastrotrichaPhylumGemmatimonadetesPhylumGlomeromycotaPhylumGnathostomulidaPhylumHaptophytaPhylum12Next →Sources1. Wikipedia: Taxonomic ranktier 2WikipediaTaxonomic rank, Fundamental ranks section, rank sequence sentence, phylumQuote, Taxonomic rank, Fundamental ranks section, rank sequence sentence, phylumkingdom, phylum or division, class, order, family, genus, and speciesView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.