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Taxon: Kingdom Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals (animal)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  C. Linnaeus, 1758|760-0 Ma
Unavailable original name:  Linnaeus, C. 1735. Syst. Nat. [ed. 1]: [1].
Original name, rank & spelling:  Linnaeus, C. 1758. Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1: 6 ("Animalia"), 9 ("Regnum Animale", "Animalia"). ≡
Unavailable original rank: 

Variants

Unavailable name: Animalia (Kingdom) nom. inval.
Different rank: Animalia (Suprakingdom) Linnaeus, 1758
Former unranked name: Animalia ([unranked]) Linnaeus, 1758
Grade: Metazoa ([unranked])

Synonyms

Accepted name (approximate): Metazoa (Clade) Haeckel 1874 [Garey & Halanych 2020] Ref: J.R. Garey & K.M. Halanych, 2020: [435]. [new] [implicit]
Synonymous name: Metazoa (Kingdom) Haeckel, 1874 Ref: T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998: 234; 208.
Synonymous name: Metazoa ([unranked]) Haeckel 1874 Ref: E.J. van Nieukerken, 2010: 111. [implicit]
Synonymous name: Zoobiota (Kingdom) Jeffrey, 1971
Including: Diploblastica (Subkingdom) Haeckel, 1866
Including: Eumetazoa (Subkingdom) Butschli, 1910
Including: Eumetazoa (Branch) Butschli, 1910
Including: Metazoa (Subkingdom) Haeckel, 1874
Including: Radiata (Subkingdom) (Linnaeus, 1758) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
Including: Radiata (Superphylum)
Preferred name: Regnum Animale (Kingdom) C. Linnaeus, 1758
Former name: Animale Regnum (Kingdom) nom. inval.
Former name: Regnum Animale (Kingdom) C. Linnaeus, 1758
Former name: Regnum Animale (Kingdom) nom. inval.
Vernacular name: animal (Kingdom)
Vernacular name: animal-kingdom (Kingdom)
Vernacular name: animaux ([unranked])

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: dieren
: dierenrijk

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: animals Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
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