ADW: Aethopyga: CLASSIFICATION

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Kingdom Animalia (animals)
- Eumetazoa (metazoans)
  - Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
    - Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
      - Phylum Chordata (chordates)
        
        Craniata (craniates)
        
        Subphylum Vertebrata (vertebrates)
        
        Superclass Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates)
        
        Euteleostomi (bony vertebrates)
        
        Class Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fishes and terrestrial vertebrates)
        
        Tetrapoda (tetrapods)
        
        Amniota (amniotes)
        
        Class Reptilia
        
        Class Aves (birds)
        
        Subclass Neognathae (neognath birds)
        
        Infraclass Neoaves (modern birds)
        
        Order Passeriformes (perching birds)
        
        Passerida
        
        Muscicapoidea (thrushes, sparrows, and relatives)
        
        Passeroidea (sparrows and relatives)
        
        Family Nectariniidae (sunbirds)
        
        Genus Aethopyga
        
        Species Aethopyga bella (handsome sunbird)
        
        Species Aethopyga boltoni (Apo sunbird)
        
        Species Aethopyga christinae (fork-tailed sunbird)
        
        Species Aethopyga duyvenbodei (elegant sunbird)
        
        Species Aethopyga eximia (white-flanked sunbird)
        
        Species Aethopyga flagrans (flaming sunbird)
        
        Species Aethopyga gouldiae (Gould's sunbird)
        
        Species Aethopyga ignicauda (fire-tailed sunbird)
        
        Species Aethopyga linaraborae (Lina's sunbird)
        
        Species Aethopyga mystacalis (Javan sunbird)
        
        Species Aethopyga nipalensis (green-tailed sunbird)
        
        Species Aethopyga primigenia (grey-hooded sunbird)
        
        Species Aethopyga pulcherrima (metallic-winged sunbird)
        
        Species Aethopyga saturata (black-throated sunbird)
        
        Species Aethopyga shelleyi (lovely sunbird)
        
        Species Aethopyga siparaja (crimson sunbird)
        
        Species Aethopyga temminckii (Temminck's sunbird)

Confused by a class within a class or an order within an order? Please see our brief essay.

To cite this page: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2012. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org.

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