Template:Taxonomy/Arthropoda

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Parent:	`Panarthropoda` [Taxonomy; edit]
Rank:	`phylum` (displays as `Phylum`)
Link:	`Arthropod\|Arthropoda`(links to `Arthropod`)
Extinct:	no
Always displayed:	yes (major rank)
Taxonomic references:	Telford MJ, Bourlat SJ, Economou A, Papillon D, Rota-Stabelli O (April 2008). "The evolution of the Ecdysozoa". Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B, Biol. Sci. 363 (1496): 1529–37. doi:10.1098/rstb.2007.2243. PMC 2614232. PMID 18192181.
Parent's taxonomic references:	This is a grouping of three phyla that does not have a formal ranking in the Linnean system. Examples of usage include Frank W. Smith; Bob Goldstein (2017). "Segmentation in Tardigrada and diversification of segmental patterns in Panarthropoda" (PDF). Arthropod Structure & Development. 46: 328–340. doi:10.1016/j.asd.2016.10.005 – via University of North Carolina. - where it is informally referred to as a superphylum Smith, Martin R; Ortega-Hernández, Javier (2014). "Hallucigenia's onychophoran-like claws and the case for Tactopoda". Nature. 514 (7522): 363. Bibcode:2014Natur.514..363S. doi:10.1038/nature13576. PMID 25132546. Giacomelli, Mattia; Vecchi, Matteo; Guidetti, Roberto; Rebecchi, Lorena; Donoghue, Philip C J; Lozano-Fernandez, Jesus & Pisani, Davide (December 2024). "CAT-Posterior Mean Site Frequencies Improves Phylogenetic Modeling Under Maximum Likelihood and Resolves Tardigrada as the Sister of Arthropoda Plus Onychophora". Genome Biology and Evolution. 17 (1) evae273. doi:10.1093/gbe/evae273. – where it is referred to as a clade

Ancestral taxa
Domain:	Eukaryota	[Taxonomy; edit]
Clade:	Podiata	[Taxonomy; edit]
Supergroup:	Amorphea	[Taxonomy; edit]
Clade:	Obazoa	[Taxonomy; edit]
Clade:	Opisthokonta	[Taxonomy; edit]
Clade:	Holozoa	[Taxonomy; edit]
Clade:	Filozoa	[Taxonomy; edit]
Clade:	Choanozoa	[Taxonomy; edit]
Kingdom:	Animalia	[Taxonomy; edit]
Subkingdom:	Eumetazoa	[Taxonomy; edit]
Clade:	ParaHoxozoa	[Taxonomy; edit]
Clade:	Bilateria	[Taxonomy; edit]
Clade:	Nephrozoa	[Taxonomy; edit]
Clade:	Protostomia	[Taxonomy; edit]
Superphylum:	Ecdysozoa	[Taxonomy; edit]
Clade:	Panarthropoda	[Taxonomy; edit]
Phylum:	Arthropoda	[Taxonomy; edit]