List of defunct taxa

In the history of the Linnaean classification system, many taxa have become defunct.

Taxon Classification(s) used Contents
Order Agriae Linnaeus (1748)[1] Anteaters and pangolins
Order Anthropomorpha Linnaeus (1740,[2] 1748)[1] 1740: Primates, anteaters, and sloths

1748: Primates and sloths
Order Belluae Linnaeus (1758,[3] 1766)[4] 1758: Horses and hippopotamuses

1766: as above plus pigs, and rhinoceroses
Order Bestiae Linnaeus (1758)[3] Pigs, armadillos, hedgehogs, moles, shrews, and opossums
Kingdom Bionta Walton (1930)[5]
Order Bruta Linnaeus (1758,[3] 1766)[4] 1758: Elephants, manatees, sloths, anteaters, pangolins

1766: as above plus armadillos
Suborder Gravigrada
Order Insectivora Several Hedgehog, shrews, moles, tenrecs, golden moles, solenodons, and sometimes elephant-shrews, treeshrews, and colugos
Order Jumenta Linnaeus (1740,[2] 1748)[1] 1740: Shrews, horses, elephants, hippopotamuses, and pigs

1748: as above plus rhinoceroses
Order Lipotyphla
Order and/or Suborder Pachydermata Perissodactylans, elephants, hippopotamuses, peccaries and pigs
Order Quaternates Blainville (1839)[6] Gravigrada, Pachydermata and Ruminantia
Order Secundates Blainville (1839)[6] Chiroptera, Insectivora and Carnivora
Genus Simia Apes (but not humans) and monkeys
Order Tertiates Blainville (1839)[6] Glires

References

  1. ^ a b c Linnaeus, C. 1748. Systema naturae sistens regna tria naturae, in classes et ordines genera et species, redacta tabulisque aeneis illustrata. Lipsiae: Kiesewetter.
  2. ^ a b Linnaeus, C. 1740. Systema Naturae in quo Naturae Regna tria, secundum. Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, systematice proponuntur. Stockholm: Kiesewetter.
  3. ^ a b c Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Vol. 1: Regnum animale. Editio decima, reformata. Stockholm: Laurentii Salvii.
  4. ^ a b Linnaeus, C. 1766. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Vol. 1: Regnum animale. Editio decima, reformata. Stockholm: Laurentii Salvii.
  5. ^ Walton, Lee Barker (1930). "Studies Concerning Organisms Occurring in Water Supplies With Particular Reference to Those Founded in Ohio". Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin, 24. pp. 1–86. 
  6. ^ a b c Blainville, Henri-Marie Ducrotay de (1839). "Nouvelle classification des Mammifères". Annales Françaises et Etrangères d’Anatomie et de Physiologie Appliquées à la Médicine et à l’Histoire Naturelle, 3. pp. 268–269.