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subphylum
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In zoological nomenclature, a subphylum is a taxonomic rank below the rank of phylum.
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In zoological nomenclature, a subphylum is a taxonomic rank below the rank of phylum.
The taxonomic rank of "subdivision" in fungi and plant taxonomy is equivalent to "subphylum" in zoological taxonomy. Some plant taxonomists have also used the rank of subphylum, for instance monocotyledons as a subphylum of phylum Angiospermae and vertebrates as a subphylum of phylum Chordata.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “subphylum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.