ADW: Pitta: 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)
        
        Eurylaimi (Old World suboscines)
        
        Family Pittidae (pittas)
        
        Genus Pitta
        
        Species Pitta anerythra (black-faced pitta)
        
        Species Pitta angolensis (African pitta)
        
        Species Pitta arquata (blue-banded pitta)
        
        Species Pitta baudii (blue-headed pitta)
        
        Species Pitta brachyura (Indian pitta)
        
        Species Pitta caerulea (giant pitta)
        
        Species Pitta cyanea (blue pitta)
        
        Species Pitta elegans (elegant pitta)
        
        Species Pitta elliotii (bar-bellied pitta)
        
        Species Pitta erythrogaster (red-bellied pitta)
        
        Species Pitta granatina (garnet pitta)
        
        Species Pitta guajana (banded pitta)
        
        Species Pitta gurneyi (Gurney's pitta)
        
        Species Pitta iris (rainbow pitta)
        
        Species Pitta kochi (whiskered pitta)
        
        Species Pitta maxima (ivory-breasted pitta)
        
        Species Pitta megarhyncha (mangrove pitta)
        
        Species Pitta moluccensis (blue-winged pitta)
        
        Species Pitta nipalensis (blue-naped pitta)
        
        Species Pitta nympha (fairy pitta)
        
        Species Pitta oatesi (rusty-naped pitta)
        
        Species Pitta phayrei (eared pitta)
        
        Species Pitta reichenowi (green-breasted pitta)
        
        Species Pitta schneideri (Schneider's pitta)
        
        Species Pitta sordida (hooded pitta)
        
        Species Pitta soror (blue-rumped pitta)
        
        Species Pitta steerei (azure-breasted pitta)
        
        Species Pitta superba (superb pitta)
        
        Species Pitta venusta (black-crowned pitta)
        
        Species Pitta versicolor (noisy pitta)

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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