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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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Schizosaccharomyces

Genus

  1. LifeLife
  2. DomainEukaryota
  3. KingdomFungi
  4. PhylumAscomycota
  5. ClassSchizosaccharomycetes
  6. OrderSchizosaccharomycetales
  7. FamilySchizosaccharomycetaceae
  8. GenusSchizosaccharomyces
Advanced classification

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

  1. cellular organisms cellular root
  2. Eukaryota domain
  3. Opisthokonta clade
  4. Fungi kingdom
  5. Dikarya subkingdom
  6. Ascomycota phylum
  7. Taphrinomycotina subphylum
  8. Schizosaccharomycetes class
  9. Schizosaccharomycetales order
  10. Schizosaccharomycetaceae family
  11. Schizosaccharomyces genus

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