living organisms
 see Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
  
 Superkingdom Eukaryotae
 see Domain Eukaryota Chatton, 1925
    
 Kingdom Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
      
 Subkingdom Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910
 see [unranked] Eumetazoa Bütschli, 1910
        
 Phylum Chordata Bateson, 1885 - chordates
          
 Subphylum Vertebrata Cuvier, 1812 - vertebrates
 see Infraphylum Vertebrata Lamarck, 1801
            
 Class Aves Linnaeus, 1758 - birds
 see Subclass Aves Linnaeus, 1758
              
 Subclass Neornithes Gadow, 1893
 see Clade Neornithes Gadow, 1893
                
 Superorder Palaeognathae Pycraft, 1900
 see Cohort Palaeognathae Pycraft, 1900
                  
 Order Casuariiformes Sclater, 1880
                    
 Family Dromaiidae Huxley, 1868 - emus
                      
 Genus Emu
 see Genus Dromaius Vieillot, 1816
                        
 1 ‡Emu diemenianus Jennings, 1828
 see  Dromaius diemenianus (Jennings, 1828)
                        
 2 Emu novaehollandiae Latham, 1790
 see  Dromaius novaehollandiae (Latham, 1790)