ADW: Ventrifossa: 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 Actinopterygii
        
        Order Gadiformes
        
        Family Macrouridae (Grenadiers or rattails)
        
        Genus Ventrifossa
        
        Species Ventrifossa atherodon (Arrow-toothed grenadier)
        
        Species Ventrifossa ctenomelas (Common grenadier)
        
        Species Ventrifossa divergens (Plainfin grenadier)
        
        Species Ventrifossa fusca
        
        Species Ventrifossa garmani (Sagami grenadier)
        
        Species Ventrifossa gomoni (Pale smiling whiptail)
        
        Species Ventrifossa johnboborum (Snoutscale whiptail)
        
        Species Ventrifossa longibarbata
        
        Species Ventrifossa macrodon
        
        Species Ventrifossa macropogon (Longbeard grenadier)
        
        Species Ventrifossa macroptera (Palau grenadier)
        
        Species Ventrifossa misakia (Misaki grenadier)
        
        Species Ventrifossa mucocephalus (Slimehead grenadier)
        
        Species Ventrifossa mystax
        
        Species Ventrifossa nasuta (Conesnout grenadier)
        
        Species Ventrifossa nigrodorsalis (Spinaker grenadier)
        
        Species Ventrifossa obtusirostris
        
        Species Ventrifossa paxtoni (Thinbarbel whiptail)
        
        Species Ventrifossa petersonii (Peterson's grenadier)
        
        Species Ventrifossa rhipidodorsalis
        
        Species Ventrifossa saikaiensis
        
        Species Ventrifossa sazonovi (Dark smiling whiptail)
        
        Species Ventrifossa teres
        
        Species Ventrifossa vinolenta

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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