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Life → Domain → Kingdom → Phylum → Class → Order → Family → Genus → Species. Explore the principal ranks; intermediate clades remain in Advanced classification.
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NCBI Taxonomy · November 5, 2026. Missing ranks leave empty columns. Animalia is the recorded synonym of Metazoa; green plants use Viridiplantae. Full source ancestry is available in Advanced classification.
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Classification list
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Asteriidae
Family
- LifeLife
- DomainEukaryota
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumEchinodermata
- ClassAsteroidea
- OrderForcipulatida
- FamilyAsteriidae
Advanced classification
Complete source lineage, including intermediate ranks. The standard view uses Life and the eight principal ranks.
- cellular organisms cellular root
- Eukaryota domain
- Opisthokonta clade
- Metazoa kingdom
- Eumetazoa clade
- Bilateria clade
- Deuterostomia clade
- Echinodermata phylum
- Eleutherozoa clade
- Asterozoa superclass
- Asteroidea class
- Forcipulatacea superorder
- Forcipulatida order
- Asteriidae family