Journal article
Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and taxonomic richness
Zhi-Qiang Zhang, John NA 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, DE Wilson, DeeAnn M Reeder, Uwe Fritz, Mike Hodda, Roberto Guidetti, Roberto Bertolani, Georg Mayer, Ivo de Sena Oliveira, Zhi-Qiang Zhang Show all
ZOOTAXA | MAGNOLIA PRESS | Published : 2011
Abstract
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 (includ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
I thank all the contributors of this special volume for their collaborative efforts and my colleague Dr Rich Leschen (Landcare Research) for review and comments. The author was supported by the New Zealand Foundation for Research, Science and Technology through backbone funding of the "Defining New Zealand's Land Biota" programme.