Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata

Tetrapoda

Rank: Megaclass
Taxon Status: accepted

note: Tetrapoda is an informal group of Gnathostomata, containing the Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia and Amphibia, of which the latter do not have marine species.

Children

Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758
Reptilia Laurenti, 1768

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: 四足類

Literature

basis of record	Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp.
additional source	Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1982). Five Kingdoms : an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on earth. Second edition. Freeman.