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Taxonomy Tournament: Mammals

Caniformia. This suborder of Carnivora contains dogs, foxes, bears, otters, badgers, raccoons, skunks, seals, and walruses.

Whippomorpha. This suborder of even-toed ungulates have for the most part lost their toes, becoming dolphins and whales. It also includes hippos.

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Taxonomy Tournament: Insects

Lepidoptera. This order is made up of butterflies and moths. It is the second largest order (behind beetles) making up 10% of all described species of living things. They have large triangular wings and a proboscis for siphoning nectar.

Hymenoptera. This order is made up of wasps, ants, and bees. Their mouthparts are adapted for chewing, or in many species have become a proboscis for sucking nectar.

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Taxonomy Tournament: Annelids

Hirudinea. This subclass is made up of leeches, soft worms that are typically parasitic and feed on blood

Bonelliida. In this order of unsegmented marine worms, the males are much smaller than the females, and typicaly live on or inside them.

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Taxonomy Tournament: Fish

Beloniformes. Most fish of this order live close to the surface, including the flying fish.

Blenniiformes. This order is made up of blennies, including the sand stargazer, which have eyes on top of their heads and spend most of the time buried in sand to ambush prey.

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Taxonomy Tournament: Fish

Siluriformes. This order is made up of catfish, which have prominent barbels (sensory organs near the mouth) that resemble a cats whiskers.

Lepisosteiformes. This order is made up of the gar, a relatively large and elongated fish whose swim bladder can funciton as lungs.

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Taxonomy Tournament: Gastropods

Nudipleura. This superorder is made up of sea slugs, which are typically colourful. Members include the sea bunny, variable neon slug, and blue dragon

Conidae. This family is made up of cone snails, which hunt prey by launching their tooth from their mouth like a harpoon and injecting them with venom.

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Taxonomy Tournament: Ecdytes

C. elegans. This nematode species is commonly used as a model organism, being the first multi-cellular organism to have its genome sequenced and neural connections mapped

Loricifera. This phylum is made up of microscopic animals that attach themselves to gravel. It is one of the most recently discovered groups, first described in the 1980s

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Taxonomy Tournament: Birds

Accipitriformes. This order contains most birds of prey: hawks, eagles, vultures, and kites

Corvides. This sub-order is made up of corvids (jays, ravens, crows and magpies), as well as small meat-eating birds of the Old World, such as currawongs and butcherbirds

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Taxonomy Tournament: (Non-Avian) Reptile Finale!

Serpentes. This reptile suborder is made up of snakes

Gekkota. This infraorder is made up of geckos, small typically nocturnal lizards

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Taxonomy Tournament: Invertibrates

Tardigrada. This phylum is made up of tardigrades, also known as water bears, eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They're among the most resilient animals, able to survive high and low extremes in temperature and pressure.

Tentaculata. This class of comb jellies have colloblasts, sticky cells that trap prey, on their tentacles

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Taxonomy Tournament: Cephalopod Finale!

Octopoda. This order is made up of octopuses, predatory marine creatures with eight limbs. Their soft body allows them to squeeze trhough small spaces. They are capable of camouflage and are among the most intelligent animals.

Nautilida. This order is made up of nautilis, which have a unique planispiral shell, and move via jet propulsion. They're morphologically veyr similar to their ancient relatives, and are often called living fossils.

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Taxonomy Tournament: Shark Finale!

Orectolobiformes. This order is known as the carpet sharks. Members include nurse sharks, whale sharks, and Wobbegong sharks

Squaliformes. This order of sharks have two (typically spiny) dorsal fins. Memebrs include dogfish, gulper sharks, and the cookie-cutter shark, which gouges round chunks of flesh from larger animals

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Taxonomy Tournament: Fish

Lampriformes. This order is made up of opahs (also known as moonfish or sunfish) and their relatives, such as oarfish, crestfishes, and ribbonfishes

Stomiiformes. This order is made up of deep-sea fishes. It includes dragonfishes, loosejaws, viperfishes, and bristlemouths, the most populated family of vertebrates, with population numbering in the hundreds of trillions to quadrillions.

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Taxonomy Tournament: Spiralia

Lingulida. Brachiopods of this order have a long shell and a fleshy stalk with which it burrows into sand/mud. Includes Lingula, the oldest animal genus with species still alive today

Bryozoa. This phylum is made up of tiny aquatic invertibrates that mostly live in sedentary colonies

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Taxonomy Tournament: Arthropods

Araneae. This order is made up of spiders, eight-limbed arthropods with fangs generally able to inject venom and spinnerets that extrude silk.

Xiphosura. This order is made up of horseshoe crabs, marine arthropods whose bodies are covered by a hard carapace. They mainly feed on worms and molluscs on the ocean floor. The blood of some species is harvested for LAL, which is used to detect and quantify bacterial toxins

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Taxonomy Tournament: Chordata

Dasyuromorphia. This order is made up of carnivorous marsupials, including quolls, numbats, and the Tasmanian devil.

Urodela. This order is made up of amphibians that have a tail, such as newts and salamanders, including the axolotl.

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Taxonomy Tournament: Mammals

Didelphidae. This order is made up of the opossums, known for playing dead and in some species having prehensile tails. They are the only marsupials native to North America.

Sirenia. This order is made up of sea cows, the dugong and manatee.