Family (biology)

In biology, family is one of the levels of taxonomic classification of organisms. It lies between the less-specific order and the more-specific genus; ie, an order will contain one or more families, and a family will contain one or more genera. Humans, for instance, are of family Hominidae. The standard groupings of taxonomy from most general to most specific are:

• Domain
• Kingdom
• Phylum (animals); Division (plants)
  • Subphylum; Subdivision
  • Superclass
• Class
• Order
  • Suborder
  • Superfamily
• Family
  • Subfamily
• Genus
  • Subgenus
  • Section
    • Subsection
• Species
  • Subspecies
  • Variety (plants only)

An acronym mnemonic for remembering this is: King Phillip called out for good soup.

See also: family

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