Organism Kingdom

An Organism Kingdom is a Taxonomic Rank in Biological Classification that is below Biological Domain.

• AKA: Biological Kingdom, Kingdom.
• Example(s):
  • Kingdom Animalia,
  • Kingdom Archaea,
  • Kingdom Archaea Bacteria,
  • Kingdom Bacteria,
  • Kingdom Chromista,
  • Kingdom Eubacteria,
  • Kingdom Fungi,
  • Kingdom Monera,
  • Kingdom Plantae,
  • Kingdom Protista,
  • Kingdom Protozoa.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Species,
  • Genus,
  • Family,
  • Order,
  • Class,
  • Phylum,
  • Domain,
• See: Monophyly, Biology, Latin, Taxonomic Rank, Animal, Plantae, Fungus, Protista, Archaea.

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References

2018

• (Wikipedia, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_(biology) Retrieved:2018-8-23.
  • In biology, kingdom (Latin: regnum, plural regna) is the second highest taxonomic rank, just below domain. Kingdoms are divided into smaller groups called phyla. Traditionally, some textbooks from the United States used a system of six kingdoms (Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaea/Archaebacteria, and Bacteria/Eubacteria) while textbooks in countries like Great Britain, India, Greece, Australia, Latin America and other countries used five kingdoms (Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista and Monera). Some recent classifications based on modern cladistics have explicitly abandoned the term "kingdom", noting that the traditional kingdoms are not monophyletic, i.e., do not consist of all the descendants of a common ancestor.

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