Living Beings / Classification

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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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Lactobacillaceae

Family

  1. LifeLife
  2. DomainBacteria
  3. KingdomBacillati
  4. PhylumBacillota
  5. ClassBacilli
  6. OrderLactobacillales
  7. FamilyLactobacillaceae
Advanced classification

Complete source lineage, including intermediate ranks. The standard view uses Life and the eight principal ranks.

  1. cellular organisms cellular root
  2. Bacteria domain
  3. Bacillati kingdom
  4. Bacillota phylum
  5. Bacilli class
  6. Lactobacillales order
  7. Lactobacillaceae family

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