In the history of the Linnaean classification system, many taxa (e.g. species, genera, families, and higher taxonomic ranks) have become defunct or obsolete, and are no longer used.
Kingdoms
Animals
| Taxon | Classification(s) used | Contents |
| Class Vermes | Linnaeus | Worms |
| Order Agriae | Linnaeus (1748)[2] | Anteaters and pangolins |
| Order Anthropomorpha | Linnaeus (1740,[3] 1748)[2] | 1740: Primates, anteaters, and sloths
1748: Primates and sloths |
| Order Belluae | Linnaeus (1758,[4] 1766)[5] | 1758: Horses and hippopotamuses
1766: as above plus pigs, and rhinoceroses |
| Order Bestiae | Linnaeus (1758)[4] | Pigs, armadillos, hedgehogs, moles, shrews, and opossums |
| Order Bruta | Linnaeus (1758,[4] 1766)[5] | 1758: Elephants, manatees, sloths, anteaters, pangolins
1766: as above plus armadillos |
| Suborder Gravigrada | | |
| Order Insectivora | Several | Hedgehog, shrews, moles, tenrecs, golden moles, otter shrews, solenodons, and sometimes elephant-shrews, treeshrews, and colugos |
| Order Jumenta | Linnaeus (1740,[3] 1748)[2] | 1740: Shrews, horses, elephants, hippopotamuses, and pigs 1748: as above plus rhinoceroses |
| Order Lipotyphla | | |
| Order and/or Suborder Pachydermata | | Perissodactyls, elephants, hippopotamuses, peccaries, pigs, and sometimes camels |
| Order Quaternates | Blainville (1839)[6] | Gravigrada, Pachydermata and Ruminantia |
| Order Secundates | Blainville (1839)[6] | Chiroptera, Insectivora and Carnivora |
| Order Tertiates | Blainville (1839)[6] | Glires |
| Superorder Archonta | | Primates, Bats, Colugos, Treeshrews, and sometimes Elephant shrews |
| Genus Simia | | Apes (but not humans) and monkeys |
| Genus Tylognathus | Heckel | A variety of freshwater ray finned fish |
| Genus Brochis | Cope | Three Catfish in the family Callichthyidae |
| Genus Aponomma | Lahille | A group of hard-bodied ticks |
Protists
References
- ^ Walton, Lee Barker (1930). "Studies Concerning Organisms Occurring in Water Supplies With Particular Reference to Those Founded in Ohio". Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin, 24. pp. 1–86.
- ^ a b c Linnaeus, C. 1748. Systema naturae sistens regna tria naturae, in classes et ordines genera et species, redacta tabulisque aeneis illustrata. Lipsiae: Kiesewetter.
- ^ a b Linnaeus, C. 1740. Systema Naturae in quo Naturae Regna tria, secundum. Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, systematice proponuntur. Stockholm: Kiesewetter.
- ^ a b c Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Vol. 1: Regnum animale. Editio decima, reformata. Stockholm: Laurentii Salvii.
- ^ a b Linnaeus, C. 1766. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Vol. 1: Regnum animale. Editio decima, reformata. Stockholm: Laurentii Salvii.
- ^ a b c Blainville, Henri-Marie Ducrotay de (1839). "Nouvelle classification des Mammifères". Annales Françaises et Etrangères d'Anatomie et de Physiologie Appliquées à la Médicine et à l'Histoire Naturelle, 3. pp. 268–269.