ADW: Lanius: 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)
        
        Corvoidea (crows, birds of paradise, and relatives)
        
        Family Laniidae (shrikes)
        
        Genus Lanius (shrikes)
        
        Species Lanius bucephalus (bull-headed shrike)
        
        Species Lanius cabanisi (long-tailed fiscal)
        
        Species Lanius collaris (common fiscal)
        
        Species Lanius collurio (red-backed shrike)
        
        Species Lanius collurioides (Burmese shrike)
        
        Species Lanius cristatus (brown shrike)
        
        Species Lanius dorsalis (Taita fiscal)
        
        Species Lanius excubitor (great grey shrike)
        
        Species Lanius excubitoroides (grey-backed fiscal)
        
        Species Lanius gubernator (Emin's shrike)
        
        Species Lanius isabellinus (Isabelline shrike)
        
        Species Lanius ludovicianus (loggerhead shrike)
        
        Species Lanius mackinnoni (MacKinnon's shrike)
        
        Species Lanius meridionalis (southern grey shrike)
        
        Species Lanius minor (lesser grey shrike)
        
        Species Lanius newtoni (Newton's fiscal)
        
        Species Lanius nubicus (masked shrike)
        
        Species Lanius schach (long-tailed shrike)
        
        Species Lanius senator (woodchat shrike)
        
        Species Lanius somalicus (Somali fiscal)
        
        Species Lanius souzae (Sousa's shrike)
        
        Species Lanius sphenocercus (Chinese grey shrike)
        
        Species Lanius tephronotus (grey-backed shrike)
        
        Species Lanius tigrinus (tiger shrike)
        
        Species Lanius validirostris (mountain shrike)
        
        Species Lanius vittatus (bay-backed shrike)

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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