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Kingdom Animalia (animals)
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Eumetazoa (metazoans)-
Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
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Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
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Phylum Chordata (chordates)
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Craniata (craniates)
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Subphylum Vertebrata (vertebrates)
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Superclass Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates)
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Euteleostomi (bony vertebrates)
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Class Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fishes and terrestrial vertebrates)
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Tetrapoda (tetrapods)
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Amniota (amniotes)
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Class Reptilia
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Class Aves (birds)
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Subclass Neognathae (neognath birds)
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Infraclass Neoaves (modern birds)
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Order Passeriformes (perching birds)
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Muscicapoidea (thrushes, sparrows, and relatives)
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Passeroidea (sparrows and relatives)
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Family Passeridae (Old World sparrows)-
Genus Passer (Old World sparrows)
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Species Passer motitensis (rufous sparrow)-
Subspecies Passer motitensis benguellensis -
Subspecies Passer motitensis cordofanicus
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Subspecies Passer motitensis hemileucus
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Subspecies Passer motitensis insularis
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Subspecies Passer motitensis motitensis
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Subspecies Passer motitensis rufocinctus
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Subspecies Passer motitensis shelleyi
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Subspecies Passer motitensis subsolanus
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Confused by a class within a class or an order within an order? Please see our brief essay.
Scientific names for Aves taxonomy (family and below) are from The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Princeton University Press, copyright 2003. Used by permission.
