This is a work in progress... please bear with me, come back and watch it grow? Send constructive suggestions?

The following cheats some groups of animals by lumping in that "misc" group... and I may "promote" some of them in due course... but for now, here are some important groups for you to know about.

Please, by the way, do not use the term "invertebrates". It is like saying that the color of blood is "not green". Saying that something is "not a vertebrate" doesn't narrow things down usefully, and it implies that some very un-related things are somehow all in the same group.

I know the list of phyla for the animal kingdom is rather long... I will try to do something about at least suggesting a sub-set for your initial studies. It is also not in any sensible order, yet.

• Microscopic animals... this "group" isn't really all similar organisms... but it useful at the level the Flat Earth Academy attempts to achieve.
• Chordata, the phylum which includes the class Vertebrates... a small group, but our group!
• Arthropods... includes the insects... a huge class, full of many wonderful creatures.
• Molluscs... clams and some unexpected things... and a large group.
• Worms... actually, there are several worm main groups. One includes leeches. (Not a major organism, perhaps, but one that may wake up people with glazed eyes.)
• Jellyfish.
• Sponges.
• Echinoderms ("Spiny skins")- Starfish, etc.
• ... and last, and least... the glorious "Miscellaneous"!

Eventually, I hope to have sub-pages for more of those groups for you. But as long as you can produce that list, and after you've studied the details of the chordata and arthropods, I think you have a sufficient outline of the animals.

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