You're right generally. Actually, bacteria make up a whole domain. A
second is the Eucarya (animals, ciliates, plants, fungi, flagellates
and microsporidians). Still a third is the Archaea, a diverse batch
of microbes which include extreme thermophiles, halophiles, and
others. These are distinguishable from bacteria in a number of
fundamental biochemical and functional ways. Archea were once called
Archaebacteria.
Domain Eucarya
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Cetacea
Family Delphinidae
Genus Tursiops
Species truncatus (bottlenose dolphin)
Adding subclasses, suborders, subfamilies, tribes, subgenera,
subspecies, forms, etc., etc, can give one quite a little hierarchical
listing! As you conchlers know, each taxonomic group has its own
traditions and protocols. And, depending on the group, there can be
lots of disagreement below the class level. But the Archaea are
different from all others at the highest level.
So you are more closely related to a paramecium (and certainly a
Busycon) than a bacterium is to an Archaean.
OK, I have too much time on my hands.
Robert M. Avent
Oceanographer
Minerals Management Service
New Orleans
Bob Avent
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Subject: Re: Eggs,Eggs,Eggs-----
Author: "Gijs C. Kronenberg" <[log in to unmask]> at ~smtp
Date: 3/19/98 2:08 PM
Sorry, Bacteria are no part of the animal kingdom; they have procaryote
cells, whilst animals (and plants, and fungi) have eucaryote cells
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> Van: ferreter <[log in to unmask]>
> Aan: [log in to unmask]
> Onderwerp: Re: Eggs,Eggs,Eggs-----
> Datum: zondag 15 maart 1998 6:18
>
> You have a most interesting point. However , if you consider organisms
as
> part of the animal world
> the staphylococcus bacteria would be the most prolific. Mark James Bethke
>
>
> > Shellers, the following bit of trivia may or may not be of
> interest
> >to you.
> >
> >I thought it was awesome.
> >
> >It is said that the most prolific species in the Animal kingdom is;
> >
> > CRASSOSTREA gigas Thunberg
> >
> > Giant Pacific Oyster
> >
> >It may lay as many as 1,000 to the eighth power, eggs in one year.
> >
> >That s One Septillion, (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000).
> >
> >And if all survived in five generations, the aggregate would be large
> >
> >enough to make eight worlds like ours.
> >
> > Ref. R. Tucker Abbot s American Seashells pg. 41
> >
> >
> > Bill Mahavier
> >
> > Shellers, the following bit of trivia may or may not be of
> interest
> >to you.
> >
> >I thought it was awesome.
> >
> >It is said that the most prolific species in the Animal kingdom is;
> >
> > CRASSOSTREA gigas Thunberg
> >
> > Giant Pacific Oyster
> >
> >It may lay as many as 1,000 to the eighth power, eggs in one year.
> >
> >That s One Septillion, (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000).
> >
> >And if all survived in five generations, the aggregate would be large
> >
> >enough to make eight worlds like ours.
> >
> > Ref. R. Tucker Abbot s American Seashells pg. 41
> >
> >
> > Bill Mahavier
> >
> > Shellers, the following bit of trivia may or may not be of
> interest
> >to you.
> >
> >I thought it was awesome.
> >
> >It is said that the most prolific species in the Animal kingdom is;
> >
> > CRASSOSTREA gigas Thunberg
> >
> > Giant Pacific Oyster
> >
> >It may lay as many as 1,000 to the eighth power, eggs in one year.
> >
> >That s One Septillion, (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000).
> >
> >And if all survived in five generations, the aggregate would be large
> >
> >enough to make eight worlds like ours.
> >
> > Ref. R. Tucker Abbot s American Seashells pg. 41
> >
> >
> > Bill Mahavier
> >
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