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Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and taxonomic richness

2011; Q15088586; Issue: 3148 Linguagem: Inglês

1175-5334

Zhi‐Qiang Zhang, John N. A. Hooper, Rob Wm Van Soest, Andrzej Pisera, Andrea L. Crowther, Seth Tyler, Stephen Schilling, William N. Eschmeyer, JON D. FONG, David C. Blackburn, David B. Wake, D. Bruce Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder, Uwe Fritz, Mike Hodda, Roberto Guidetti, Roberto Bertolani, Georg Mayer, Ivo de Sena Oliveira, Jonathan M. Adrain, Roger N. Bamber, Adriano B. Kury, Lorenzo Prendini, Mark S. Harvey, Frédéric Beaulieu, Ashley P. G. Dowling, Hans Klompen, Gilberto J. de Morães, David Evans Walter, Qing‐Hai Fan, Vladimir Pešić, Harry Smit, André V. Bochkov, AA Khaustov, Anne S. Baker, Andreas Wohltmann, Ting-Huan Wen, James W. Amrine, Petâr Beron, Jianzhen Lin, Grzegorz Gabryś, Robert W. Husband, Samuel J. Bolton, Matti Uusitalo, Heinrich Schatz, Valerie M. Behan‐Pelletier, Barry M. OConnor, Roy A. Norton, Jason A. Dunlop, David Penney, Alessandro Minelli, William A. Shear, Shane T. Ahyong, J. K. LOWRY, Miguel Alonso, Geoffrey A. Boxshall, Peter Castro, Sarah Gerken, Gordan S. Karaman, Joseph W. Goy, Diana S. Jones, Kenneth Meland, D. Christopher Rogers, Jörundur Svavarsson, F.J.G. Janssens, Kenneth Christiansen, Sigfrid Ingrisch, Paul D. Brock, Judith Marshall, George Beccaloni, Paul Eggleton, Laurence A. Mound, SA Slipinski, Richard A. B. Leschen, JF Lawrence, Ralph W. Holzenthal, John C. Morse, Karl M. Kjer, E.J. van Nieukerken, Lauri Kaila, Ian J. Kitching, Niels P. Kristensen, David C. Lees, Joël Minet, Charles Mitter, Marko Mutanen, Jerome C. Regier, Thomas J. Simonsen, Niklas Wahlberg, Shen‐Horn Yen, Reza Zahiri, David Adamski, Joaquín Baixeras, Daniel Bartsch, Bengt Bengtsson, John W. Brown, Sibyl R. Bucheli, Donald R. Davis, Jurate De Prins, Willy De Prins, Marc E. Epstein, Patricia Gentili-Poole, Cees Gielis, Peter Haettenschwiler, Axel Hausmann, Jeremy D. Holloway, Axel Kallies, Ole Karsholt, Akito Y. Kawahara, Sjaak J.C. Koster, Mikhail V. Kozlov, J. Donald Lafontaine, Gerardo Lamas, Jean‐François Landry, Sangmi Lee, Matthias Nuß, Kyu‐Tek Park, Carla M. Penz, Jadranka Rota, Alexander Schintlmeister, Christian Schmidt, Jae‐Cheon Sohn, M. Alma Solís, Г. М. Тарманн, Andrew Warren, Susan J. Weller, Roman V. Yakovlev, Vadim V. Zolotuhin, Andreas Zwick, Thomas Pape, Vladimir Blagoderov, Mike B. Mostovski, Christian C. Emig, Hendrik Segers, Scott Monks, Dennis J. Richardson,

Mollusks and Parasites Studies

The kingdom Animalia is here estimated to have a total of 1,659,420 described species (including 133,692 fossil species) in 40 phyla. Among these, the most successful phylum Arthropoda alone represents 1,302,809 species, or about 78.5% of the total. The second largest phylum, Mollusca (118,061 species), is <10% of Arthropoda in diversity, but it is still much more diverse than other successful invertebrate phyla Platyhelminthes (29,488 species), Nematoda (25,043 species), Echinodermata (20,550 species), Annelida (17,426 species), Cnidaria (16,363 species), Bryozoa (11,474 species) and Porifera (10,876 species). The phylum Craniata, including the vertebrates, represents 85,432 species (including 19,974 fossil species): among these, 35,644 species of fishes, 7,171 species of amphibians, 15,507 species of reptiles, 11,087 species of birds, and 16,014 species of mammals.