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Clade: Metazoa Haeckel 1874 - multicellular animals (animal)
Classification by:

Natura - nature
Status: extant
   actualia - actual entities
  Status: extant
     Mundus Plinius - physical world
    Status: extant
       naturalia - natural bodies
      Status: extant
         Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
        Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater, terrestrial & aerial); Period: Archean - Present (3770 - 0 Mya); Status: extant
           Clade neomura Cavalier-Smith, 1987
          Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Period: Archean - Present (3420 - 0 Mya); Status: extant
             Domain Eukaryota Chatton, 1925 - eukaryotes
            Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Period: Proterozoic - Present (1650 - 0 Mya); Status: extant
               Clade discaria Cavalier-Smith, 2021
              Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Period: Proterozoic - Present [2500 Mya - present]; Status: extant
                 Clade dorsates Cavalier-Smith, 2021
                Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Period: Proterozoic - Present [2500 Mya - present]; Status: extant
                   Clade podiates Cavalier-Smith, 2012
                  Distribution: cosmopolitan (marine, brackish, freshwater & terrestrial); Period: Proterozoic - Present [2500 Mya - present]; Status: extant
                     [Clade "Amorphea" Adl et al. 2012, nom. cl. inval.] see Clade Amorphea Adl et al. 2012 [Simpson, Medina & Adl 2020]
                    Status: extant
                       [Clade "Opisthokonta" Cavalier-Smith 1987, nom. cl. inval.] see Clade Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith 1987 [Simpson & Medina 2020]
                      Status: extant
                         [Clade Holozoa Lang, O'Kelly, Nerad, Gray & Burger 2002 [Adl et al. 2012]] see Superkingdom Holozoa Lang, O'Kelly, Nerad, Gray & Burger, 2002
                        Status: extant
                           [Clade Metazoa Haeckel 1874 - multicellular animals] see Kingdom Animalia Linnaeus, 1758
                          Status: extant
                             3.1.0 [Clade Porifera Grant, 1836 - sponges] see Phylum Porifera Grant, 1836
                            Status: extant
                             3.2.0 [Gastraeozoa]
                            Status: extant

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