A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and taxonomic richness
Authors: Zhang ZQ, Hooper JNA, Van Soest RWM, Pisera A, Crowther AL, Tyler S, Schilling S, Eschmeyer WN, Fong JD, Blackburn DC, Wake DB, Wilson DE, Reeder DM, Fritz U, Hodda M, Guidetti R, Bertolani R, Mayer G, Oliveira ID, Zhang ZQ, Adrain JM, Bamber RN, Kury AB, Prendini L, Harvey MS, Beaulieu F, Dowling APG, Klompen H, de Moraes GJ, Walter DE, Zhang ZQ, Fan QH, Pesic V, Smit H, Bochkov AV, Khaustov AA, Baker A, Wohltmann A, Wen TH, Amrine JW, Beron P, Lin JZ, Gabrys G, Husband R, Bolton S, Uusitalo M, Zhang ZQ, Schatz H, Behan-Pelletier VM, OConnor BM, Norton RA, Dunlop JA, Penney D, Minelli A, Shear W, Ahyong ST, Lowry JK, Alonso M, Bamber RN, Boxshall GA, Castro P, Gerken S, Karaman GS, Goy JW, Jones DS, Meland K, Rogers DC, Svavarsson J, Janssens F, Christiansen KA, Ingrisch S, Brock PD, Marshall J, Beccaloni GW, Eggleton P, Mound LA, Slipinski SA, Leschen RAB, Lawrence JF, Holzenthal RW, Morse JC, Kjer KM, van Nieukerken EJ, Kaila L, Kitching IJ, Kristensen NP, Lees DC, Minet J, Mitter C, Mutanen M, Regier JC, Simonsen TJ, Wahlberg N, Yen SH, Zahiri R, Adamski D, Baixeras J, Bartsch D, Bengtsson BA, Brown JW, Bucheli SR, Davis DR, De Prins J, De Prins W, Epstein ME, Gentili-Poole P, Gielis C, Hattenschwiler P, Hausmann A, Holloway JD, Kallies A, Karsholt O, Kawahara AY, Koster S, Kozlov MV, Lafontaine JD, Lamas G, Landry JF, Lee S, Nuss M, Park KT, Penz C, Rota J, Schintlmeister A, Schmidt BC, Sohn JC, Solis MA, Tarmann GM, Warren AD, Weller S, Yakovlev RV, Zolotuhin VV, Zwick A, Pape T, Blagoderov V, Mostovski MB, Emig CC, Segers H, Monks S, Richardson DJ, Emig CC, Mostovski MB, Monks S, Segers H, Richardson DJ, Blagoderov V
Publisher: MAGNOLIA PRESS
Publication year: 2011
Journal: Zootaxa
Journal name in source: ZOOTAXA
Journal acronym: ZOOTAXA
Issue: 3148
First page : 7
Last page: 237
Number of pages: 231
ISSN: 1175-5326
DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.3
Web address : https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/issue/view/zootaxa.3148.1
For the kingdom Animalia, 1,552,319 species have been described in 40 phyla in a new evolutionary classification. Among these, the phylum Arthropoda alone represents 1,242,040 species, or about 80% of the total. The most successful group, the Insecta (1,020,007 species), accounts for about 66% of all animals. The most successful insect order, Coleoptera (387,100 species), represents about 38% of all species in 39 insect orders. Another major group in Arthropoda is the class Arachnida (112,201 species), which is dominated by the mites and ticks (Acari 54,617 species) and spiders (43,579 species). Other highly diverse arthropod groups include Crustacea (66,914 species), Trilobitomorpha (19,606 species) and Myriapoda (11,885 species). The phylum Mollusca (117,358 species) is more diverse than other successful invertebrate phyla Platyhelminthes (29,285 species), Nematoda (24,783 species), Echinodermata (20,509 species), Annelida (17,210 species) and Bryozoa (10,941 species). The phylum Craniata, including the vertebrates, represents 64,832 species (for Recent taxa, except for amphibians): among these 7,694 described species of amphibians, 31,958 species of "fish" and 5,750 species of mammals.
