Find out how we classify living things based on taxonomic rank. There are 8 classification levels.
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Named after its inventor, Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician, the Linnaean classification system has 8 levels of classification. You may also hear this called taxonomic rank. You will often see the levels displayed as a triangle. This is because the higher levels are broad and general while the lower levels are more specific. As you go down the levels of taxonomic classification, organisms become more similar.

The 8 levels of taxonomic classification are:

Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Gender
Species

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