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Old 09-23-2005, 06:42 PM
RocketManJames RocketManJames is offline
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Default Organism Classification

In our current classification system, organisms are categorized by: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus Species.

My question is...

When was the last time a new Species was discovered? Probably 2005, since new species discoveries are fairly common.

What about a new Genus?

A new Family? Order? Clss? Phylum? Kingdom?

Is it even possible now for us to discover an organism that needs a new Kingdom? Have we exhausted any of these? If we've exhausted Kingdoms, how about Phylums?

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Old 09-23-2005, 07:19 PM
RocketManJames RocketManJames is offline
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Default Re: Organism Classification

Ok, so in Years, here are two bounds:

Species (2005): Scytalopus stilesi
Genus (1985): Illyria -- hopefully we can improve on this 1985 bound.

Edit: Genus (2002) - Austrophasma - new genus of the family below

Family (2002): Austrophasmatidae - new family of the new order below
Order (2002): Mantophasmatodea - new insecta order
Class:
Phylum:
Kingdom:

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