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![mock-up page from a children's book I'm writing. text: "Traditionally, there have been seven taxonomic ranks. From largest to smallest, these are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species. Kingdoms are huge categories which each contain some Phyla, and so on. In this simplified example, we are looking at American Black Bears, Ursus americanus. The true number of animals in Kingdom Animalia is too large to display in this book.
[there is a diagram withthe seven taxonomic ranks arranged by size in an inverted pyramid] Sometimes, taxonomists add other categories around or between these seven original ranks if a certain type of living thing is very diverse and needs more groups to be organized. For example, some Families have Subfamilies, which each contain some Genera. Plants use slightly different categories for the larger ranks, replacing both Phylum and Class with several ranks in-between called “Clades”.
Because plant names are tracked differently, there is one specific exception to the rule that all scientific binomials must be unique. It is valid for both an animal and plant to have the same Genus name, as long as there is only one of each. "](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5lfgdslvkgl6swnj36dosno7/bafkreicjc3pvuux6cnb2fpzgx4yoneocz5tj3orc2kxtsulwypdanw4vby)
