Now that the hard part is done, constructing the tree, I'd like to start linking to existing nodes and create new ones, if needed. When that's done, I'd like to go on to plants, which are much more difficult.
Unlinked taxa are waiting for nodes to be created.
Animals
- Echinoderms (sea urchins, starfish, sea cucumbers, etc)
- Vertebrates (fish etc.)
- Terrestrial Vertebrates
- Frogs
- Salamanders
- Dinosaurs
- Modern Birds
- Mammals
- Monotremata (platypus, echidnas)
- Marsupialia (opossums, kangaroos, etc.)
- Eutheria (placental mammals)
- Edentata (anteaters, sloths, armadillos)
- Pholidota (pangolins)
- Lagomorpha (rabbits, hares, and pikas)
- Rodentia (mice, rats, squirrels, gophers, porcupines, beavers, etc.)
- Macroscelidea (elephant shrews)
- Primates (monkeys, lemurs, gorillas, chimps, humans, etc.)
- Scandentia (tree shrews)
- Chiroptera (bats)
- Dermoptera (colugos or flying lemurs)
- Insectivora (shrews, moles, hedgehogs, etc.)
- Carnivora (dogs, cats, bears, raccoons, weasels, hyenas, seals, walruses), etc.
- Artiodactyla (pigs, deer, cattle, goats, sheep, hippopotamuses, camels, etc.)
- Cetacea (whales, dolphins, porpoises)
- Tubulidentata (aardvark)
- Perissodactyla (horses, tapirs, rhinoceroses)
- Hyracoidea (hyraxes, dassies)
- Sirenia (manatees, dugong, sea cow)
- Proboscidea (elephants, mammoths, mastodons, etc.)
- Teleost fish
Cnidaria (jellyfish, Sea Anemone:anemones, corals, etc.)
Cephalopoda (octopods, squids, etc.)
Arthropoda
Information based on the web site at: http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/home.pages/popular.html
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