Home›Subcategories›OrderSubcategoriesOrder231 of 1,475 entries in Taxa. Click any to see everything it connects to.Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextNature Atlas. "Order." Accessed September 8, 2026. https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/taxon/order.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextNature Atlas. (n.d.). Order. Retrieved September 8, 2026, from https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/taxon/orderCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{natureatlas-order, author = {Nature Atlas}, title = {Order}, year = {2026}, url = {https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/taxon/order}, note = {Accessed September 8, 2026} }Copy BibTeXThe rank below class, grouping families that share a more specific set of anatomical and behavioral traits: Carnivora's meat adapted teeth and claws, Primates' grasping hands and forward facing eyes, Coleoptera's hardened forewings. The largest rank group in this atlas's taxon tree by live member count.Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)BrowseCompareSelect all 231AcariformesOrder1 linkAccipitriformesOrder2 linksAcoralesOrder1 linkActinomycetalesOrder1 linkAfrosoricidaOrder1 linkAgaricalesOrder1 linkAlismatalesOrder1 linkAmblypygiOrder1 linkAmborellalesOrder1 linkAnguilliformesOrder1 linkAnseriformesOrder2 linksAnuraOrder3 linksApialesOrder1 linkApodiformesOrder2 linksApterygiformesOrder1 linkAquifolialesOrder1 linkAraneaeOrder1 linkArchaeognathaOrder1 linkArecalesOrder1 linkArtiodactylaOrder3 linksAsparagalesOrder1 linkAsteralesOrder1 linkAustrobaileyalesOrder1 linkBacillalesOrder1 linkBeloniformesOrder1 linkBerberidopsidalesOrder1 linkBlattodeaOrder2 linksBoletalesOrder1 linkBoraginalesOrder1 linkBrassicalesOrder1 linkBrunialesOrder1 linkBucerotiformesOrder1 linkBurkholderialesOrder1 linkBuxalesOrder1 linkCanellalesOrder1 linkCaprimulgiformesOrder1 linkCarnivoraOrder15 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