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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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    Sphyrna lewini

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    scalloped hammerhead

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    1. LifeLife
    2. DomainEukaryota
    3. KingdomAnimalia
    4. PhylumChordata
    5. ClassChondrichthyes
    6. OrderCarcharhiniformes
    7. FamilyCarcharhinidae
    8. GenusSphyrna
    9. SpeciesSphyrna lewini
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    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. Metazoa kingdom
    5. Eumetazoa clade
    6. Bilateria clade
    7. Deuterostomia clade
    8. Chordata phylum
    9. Craniata subphylum
    10. Vertebrata clade
    11. Gnathostomata clade
    12. Chondrichthyes class
    13. Elasmobranchii subclass
    14. Selachii infraclass
    15. Galeomorphii clade
    16. Galeoidea superorder
    17. Carcharhiniformes order
    18. Carcharhinidae family
    19. Sphyrna genus
    20. Sphyrna lewini species

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