Taxonomy/Sandbox

(Amusingly enough, one phylum of asterzoan would converge eerily close to the long-lost florapods, right down to the paired fronds and cloaca-mouth, although - perhaps save for the curious Pitfall Asterplent and its descendants - this form would be exclusively sessile in the adult stage, unlike the generally quite peripatetic plents.) Suborder - Xylures (post-pulmonary tail)(families might need to be revised?) Superfamily - Formicomimoidea (noants) Family - (yellowdundi descendants) Family - Xylomydae (norats) Family - Lacertamydae (nolizards) Subfamily - Auripodinae (eardiggers) Family - Xylochoeridae (pipents, paraphyletic to nailfins) Family - Nectodactylidae (nailfins) Familly - Xylogulidae (noggers and nogbarrels) Family - Monocruidae (tailhopping nodents) Family - Yureitheridae (geistrats) Family - Baragonimimidae (trogagons, etymology references Baragon, a fictional monster from the one of sapient cultures of,.. What was that planet named again? E- eeaa- something. Eea, that’s it! Anyway the people on there called themselves Homos or Homins (Hommen?) iirc. I think they look like shaven lemupuses with less eyes?? No tails though.) Suborder - Nodontia (Etymology of “no-” prefix unknown. Possibly related to “nobom”? But why are they called “nobom tooth”? Other noboms have teeth too! The worlds may never know.) Noboms But Toothier, Obviously. Nodent sounds weirdly like its some kind of obscure pun, but I can’t think what that would be. Maybe its a reference to the Lord of the Abyss, Nodens? But that doesn’t make much sense. That wouldn’t be the first time a Sagan 4 species has been named after an Elder God (or more accurately, it’s steed), but it still doesn’t make any contextual sense. Family - Nodontidae (noteeth) Family - Paracastoridae (neavers) Suborder - Eukitrii (ketters) Suborder - Ambulodendrae (sanasou-ki) Family - Ceratomoidae (earlbits) Family - Dynanaridae (true buttblasters) Family - Cicutonaridae (buttpipers) Order - Comosuiiformes (basal noboms) Family - Mycophagidae (shroomplents) Infraclass - Pterophylla Superorder - Pancursoria (sprinters + cousins) Order - Cursoria (crown-sprinters) *Subfamily - Spatharynchinae (stem-spelunkhoes) *Subfamily - Talpamiminae *Subfamily - Thylacotalpinae (hikahoes) *Subfamily - Sagmatalpinae (leafplates, “saddle-moles”) *Subfamily - Macropodmiminae (stem-bounders) *Family - Protocursoridae (early sprinters) Order - Karynchiformes (stem-sprinters) Superorder - Euphylloptera Order - Volaphyta (phylers) *Subfamily - Phalangipodinae (plehexapods) *Family - Pomopteridae (fruit phlyers) *Family - Leptorostridae (longbeak phylers) *Family - Blumberolynidae (pudglyns) *Family - Mimilynidae (Aabaalki and Plesican) *Subfamily - Saccocetinae (plesicans) *Family - Pterohippidae (phlocks) *Family - Tetrapteridae (tetrawings) *Family - Harpagorostridae (true hookphlyers) *Family - Laropteridae (gull-like phlyers) *Family - Pleriemidae (Pleriema) Order - Insulapteriformes (pakahes) Family - Spherophagidae Subfamily - (glowlickers) Family - Ctenodontidae (combstrainers) Family - Carrolidae (bandersnatches) Family - (lizard-like plents - descendants of the chutslonaga) Family - Glossogyrinidae (tanteato and descendants) Superfamily - Brontoglossoidea (tazertongues) Family - Gossyteguidae (cottoncoats) Family - Brontoglossidae (basal tazertongues, Sagon) Superfamily - Galeaglossoidea (helmeted gulpers) Family - Archaeoglossidae (saggulpers) Order - Ursichoeria (basal bearhogs) Order - Ungularctimorpha (everything descending from the pleeduh) Suborder - Pantheripodiformes (stem-hoofplents) Suborder - Unguarctiformes (crown-hoofplents, “bear-hooves”) Superfamily - Unguiarctoidea *Family - Probosciursidae (reaching hoofbears, dualtrunks) *Family - Gulobarbidae (briarbacks) *Family - Talparctidae (whiskerslurps and thornmoles) *Family - Teratoceratidae (hornface hoofplents) *Subfamily - Cornufacinae *Subfamily - Aardvarkmiminae (snoofloos) *Subfamily - Diabloceratinae (demoggs) Order - Deliriutheria (plandas and plandaphants) (We should have had these things eradicated when they first started to propagate, the horrid fucking things. While my coworkers seem to comprehend the issue, I will never properly fathom why the administration insists that the- these- monstrosities be left to thrive on this world.) (Approximate translation from an anonymous Naucean head researcher, Interview Log ÞÆXXŁŜ-48923) Family - Ipsomalutheridae (planda) Family - Atopotheridae (plandaphants) Family - Percutidae (shockers) Family - Lystrocephalidae Family - Phyllomantidae Superorder - Pueriplentimorpha (swarmers) Order - Pueriplentiformes (basal swarmers) Order - Neomancerxales (plyents) Order - Volatiformes (cloudswarmers) Family - Natatoresnimbidae (insect-like cloudswarmers) Order - Cryoherpetiformes (diveskimos, “icy-crawlers”) Superfamily - Tripoidea (triwalkers) Family - Tripodidae (Tripodian, Pygmipodian, and Tripodician) Family - Prototripodidae (basal triwalkers) Superfamily - Ligniteguloidea (scaleskimos) Family - Lignitegulidae Order - Brontobatrachiaformes (scooters, scientific name approximately translates to “thunder frogs”) Family - Scootypufjridae (amphibian scooters)
 * Superkingdom - Archosaganizoa
 * Kingdom - Mancerxia (these would be among the hardest-hit kingdoms in an alternate Sagan 4, the End-Huggian coronal mass ejection completely exterminating the Florapodia clade and leaving behind only the Protomancerxia Thermaparasitica as the kingdom’s sole surviving representative. With almost all available animal niches filled by descendants of the Binucleudetritivorus Thornworm, Carpotesta Luceremundare, and the Lilstar - the base of a completely unique Sagani “animal kingdom” - the Ukfauna and Rotoradiazoa would never have a chance of evolving (taken up by the shellstars and various asterzalians), and all future descendants of the thermaparasitica would retreat into quieter, microbial niches, most notably becoming the most diverse lineage of pathogen on the planet, gorging on the cytosols of countless host cells and pumping them full of enzymes with their proboscis organelles. Recently however, an offshoot of the Grapplers - a clade of actively predatory alternate Mancerxians - has taken up a blight-like fungal niche, aptly referred to as Starblights)
 * Phylum - Florapodia
 * Class - Chlorotheria
 * Subclass - Comosuida (noboms)
 * Order - Xylodontiformes
 * Order - Kitriformes (ketters)
 * Order - Allonariformes (nobits)
 * Subclass - Dinophylla
 * Clade - Rostroferra
 * Suborder - Eucursoriformes
 * Superfamily - Miasmornithoidea (gasprinters)
 * Superfamily - Eucursoroidea
 * Family - Teratocursoridae (sprintzillas)
 * Family - Talpamimidae (spelunkhoes)
 * Family - Volanspedidae (hophorns)
 * Family - Conchoanatidae (leafshells, “shell-ducks”)
 * Superfamily - Spheniscimimoidea (snoas)
 * Family - Spheniscimimidae
 * Family - Vomadentidae (jaydohves)
 * Family - Pachystruthidae (dobem)
 * Suborder - (everything excluding the magmasprinter and descendants)
 * Family - Plentutidae
 * Family - (plentivers)
 * Family - Albapteridae (White-Backed Plent and Spectre Plentutri)
 * Family - Acanthophalangidae (needlewings)
 * Superfamily - Eophyllopteroidea (basal phlyers)
 * Superfamily - Harpagorostroidea (hookphlyers)
 * Family - (armored phlyers)
 * Superfamily - Apodopteroidea (sky phlyers)
 * Order - Leptorhynchiformes
 * Order - Pelagiphylliformes
 * Order - Chlorocetoformes (“skywhale” plents)
 * Superorder - Barbelloferra
 * Order - Glossotheriformes (gulpers)
 * Class - Phyllichthia
 * Order - Brontodontiformes
 * Order - Lystrocephalia

Order - Mancerxiculae (mini/microswarmers) Order - Arthroplenti (descendants of the jointed swarmer) Family - Crustaceamimidae (scuttlers) Family - Scansiflorapedae (Snatcherswarmer) Order - Noctoplentiformes (darkswarmers) Order - Diploramales (double plents) Order - Leffoales (leffoes) Order - Flabellales (basal floral plents) Superclass - Quadrapodia (krilliformes) Order - Arachnoformicida (colonial uksips) Superorder - (ukbacks sensu lato) Order - Pseudopulmentariodorsiformes (ukbacks) Order - (riverskippers) Family - (proto-ukbacks) Family - (Riverskipper and Ukrequin) Family - Picosumminatidae (mikuks; Meiofaunal ukfauna) Order - (basal arachnopodes) Order - (urchips) Superfamily - Ambulocochloidea (uktanks) Family - Auraconchidae (eared uktanks) Family - Monolystridae (basal uktanks) what is the etymology of this? Specifically the “gomphi-” part. Yes I know there are ‘gomphotheres’ but. Changed it a little, the “lystro-” is ancient greek for shovel. Under the impression that “gompho-” meant something similar Family - Branchioconchidae (greengills) Family - Tubistomatidae (filtering urchips excluding the urstar clade) Superfamily - Asterospinoidea (urstars) Family - Belumbidae (belumbias) Family - Konasteridae (other urstars) Family - (Urmelia) Order - (urpois, urhooks) Family - Tegulopiscidae (basal urpishes) Family - Peloropiscidae (urpois) Family - Ceaculimacidae (urhooks) Family - Demmuranidae (ureels) Family - Xenosirenidae (crymaids) Family - Sirenipodidae (walking karyowees) Family - Amplafeoidae Phylum - Protomancerxia Class - Rotoradiazoa Order - Polyradia (podwhorls) Order - Reteturbenia (netwhorls) Family - Haloradidae (Salt Bog Bowlwhorl) Order - Spiralancea (whorl needlers) Order - Euradiazoa (basal whorls) Division - Coelomycites Subclass - Euplumosovermia Superorder - Dodecapteramorpha (wingworms) Order - Dodecapteraformes (basal wingworms) Order - Solariscoliciformes (treeworms) Order - Patagiavermes (slugworms) Superfamily - Xenoapoidea (xenobees and bambelins) *Family - Xenoapidae Superfamily - Arthropennoidea (clickworms and janits) *Family - Aedificidae (janits, “builders”) Superfamily - Diablomuscoidea (darbolas, “devil-flies”) Order - Phaneroptera (clear-wing worm and descendants) Order - Elytraphora (pollenworms and sapworms) Order - Anoptidorates (dartirs and cousins, “no-eyed spear-havers”) Family - Spiculatidae (crown-dartirs) Order - Nectopennae (finworms) Order - Cornoptera (antlerworms) Family - Mastacornidae (butcherworms) Order - Lapsovermi (sagworms)
 * Class - Dendromorpha
 * Phylum - Konydonta (ukfauna, changed the name from probosciferra to konydonta because that was the original alpha name, I see nothing wrong with it and it sounds more original/distinctive for such a major taxonomic entity - same with the magneferrubiota below.)
 * Class - Arachnopodia
 * Class - Spinipodia
 * Class - Luliformia
 * Order - Monodontotheres (snowkys)
 * Superfamily - Xenosirenoidea
 * Family - Ramphoceratidae (narkys)
 * Kingdom - Binucleozoa
 * Clade - Crystallizoa (In another Sagan 4, these would become the single most dominant large flora on the planet. The Binucleus Stella Dodecahedron and the Binucleus Stellaricrystal would also live on to give rise to further descendants.)
 * Clade - Saganivermes (in another timeline, the Saganivermes would consist almost exclusively of ecdyszoa-like fauna, such as the megafaunal Arthrotheria, and the moss-like Heliovermids. Instead, Saganivermes in this Sagan 4 would also give rise to mollusk- and chordate-like forms (as well as the arthropod- and annelid-like forms present in both timelines), while organisms like arthrotheres would never have evolved. Their closest equivalent may be some of the larger kruggs and lizardworms. The knightworms - a more basal clade from whence the arthrotheres derived - are mainly analogous to the Frabukis and Vermees of this timeline, being small, generalist exoskeletal worms. A closely-coverging taxon to the heliovermes has been derived from the wingworm lineage, but sadly these novel organisms are completely extinct. Early stem-conchosaganians lived a niche somewhat similar to the Hellworms of alternate Sagan 4.)
 * Phylum - Terrascolida
 * Class - Plumosovermia

Clade - Dinovermia Class - Ophistophagia (buttworms) Class - Pansaganicarcinia (Sagani arthropoda) Superfamily - Kruggectoidea (kruggs)
 * Order - Saganicarciniformes (scuttlecrabs)

Family - Fortecavoridae (fortresscrabs) Family - Saltocancridae (scuttlehoppers) Family - Saganicarcinidae (basal scuttlecrabs) Family - Kaijuscolidae (brute lizardworms) Superfamily - Textilisauroidea (gossalizards) Class - Phobovermia Superorder - Bipediformes (saucebacks) Order - Mandibuladonta Suborder - Plumoplacaformes (feathered saucebacks) (scorpion saucebacks, waxfaces, sanashies, loafshells, harnessbacks, hagloxes, larvaback) Thoughts? Umm. I’m not familiar enough with the exact relations of these taxa to make any sound judgements. Waxfaces should perhaps be made a superfamily? Order - Phobognathiformes (vicious sauceback and descendants) Order - Harenaevermiformes (stem-saucebacks) Order - Paluscoliformes Family - Branchioramidae Family - Chelonoscolidae Phylum - Pterigiophora Class - Ichthyomimia Order - Pneumadorsiformes (gillfins, “breathing-backs”) Superorder - Caudabranchia (gilltails) Order - (pumpgills) Order - (longtail gilltails) Superorder - Psitticacephalimorpha (parrotworms) Order - Palugyriniformes (waterworms+phibis) Order - Pathophagiformes (plagus) Order - Psitticacephaliformes (basal parrotworms) Class - Protopterigiophora (stem-beakworms) Phylum - Conchosagania Class - Euconchosagania (crown-bubblehorns) Order - Polyconchiformes (fraboos) Order - Holostraciformes (shellworms) Family - Mysmastacidae (Ocabulabamn) Family - Obscurovermidae Family - Crustavermidae Superfamily - Contegovermoidea (pedesorms sensu lato) Family - (Shieldworm) Family - Scelivermidae (pedesorms, “leg-worms”) Order - Coprostracaformes (dunghorns and descendants) Suborder - Folioconcha (leafhorns and descendants) Superfamily - Pictoplacoidea (painted leafhorn and descendants) Family - Kosembarlovidae (Snaialowe) Family - Pictoplacidae (venomous leafhorns) Family - Foliconchidae (Leafhorn) Family - Nasokeridae (Hornsniffer) Superfamily - Coprostracoidea (dunghorns sensu lato) Family - Coprostracidae (dunghorns) Family - Petrostracidae (stonehorns) Order - Calcilimaciformes (smaraslim bubblehorn and descendants) Class - Protoconchosagania (stem-bubblehorns) Kingdom - Hexabiota Subkingdom - Phoenozoa (purple flora and krakowpedes)(Another Sagan 4 would still have purple flora, but deriving from a lineage completely independent of the Hexabiota and wholly exclusive to that timeline. In fact, neither the core purple flora or the related krakowpedes would survive the End-Huggian coronal mass ejection, and only the Krakowhexia Symbiotae would be the sole surviving representative of both subkingdoms, eventually deriving a distinct lineage of tiny, photosynthetic sponge-like organisms.) Clade - Terraphoeniphyta Division - Spherophyta Class - Mauvospheropsida (violetglobes) Class - Manitofloropsida (shroom flora) Order - Mycocrinales (filtershrooms) Superorder - Class - Glycismopsida (loppies+gemorbs) Class - Kyvopsida (stickycubes) Class - Siderobullopsida (rusty stickyballs and derived taxa) Sublass - Knodospheropsida (fuzzy balls) Order - Hirsupalmales (fuzzpalms) Order - Erinacaulales (quillballs, “hedgehog-cauls”) Division - Saganifructa Class - Phoenipoae Order - Phoenipoales Family - Valandidendroceae (quilbils+gecobas) Subfamily - Valandipinoideae (quones) Subfamily - Valandicarpoideae (qupes) Subfamily - Gecoboideae (Gecobas) Family - Xiphapoaceae (purpleblades) Family - Halophyllaceae Order - Phoenipsillales Family - Phagopsillaceae (basal carnoferns) Family - Somnocaulaceae (deciduous carnoferns) Family - Psillopinoceae (ferines) Subfamily - Quercupinoideae (descendants of the Arid Ferine) Family - Articulataxaceae (segmented carnofern) Order - Pulmonoidorhizales Family - Pulmonoidorhrhizaceae Subamily - Riparhizoideae Family - Vilosaphyllaceae Order - Nievuphyllales Family - Tuffdraceae Family - Lystrophyllaceae (Temperate Spade-Leaf and kin) Family - Ventorhizoiceae (windbulbs) Order - Pambuales (pambus) Order - Siderophorales (rust plants) Order - Phoenotyphalaes Class - Acinumeropsida Order - Orbiflorales (orbiflora) Order - Volagranales (lightberries) “Luxales” is more “not dark” than “not heavy”, etymologically speaking. I just assumed that the lightberries were bioluminescent, being unfamilar with the group myself. Order - Piloflorales (flufflestalks) Class - Geluanthopsida Order - Psycroanthales (snow puffs) Order - Streptorhizales (tangle roots) Class - Saganicucurbitopsida (puffkins) Division - Venophylla Class - Venophyllopsida Order - Venophyllales Family - Xidhoraceae Subfamily - Trabaleavoideae (Trunkplages) Family - Saepelignaceae (hedgelogs) Family - Frigusplicaceae (Purplico) Family - Testudopotionaceae (basal purplages) Order - Venobryales Family - Venobryaceae (stem-purplages) Division - Xenopalma (blue palms) Division - Bullophora (bubble flora) Class - Saganiphyceae (water bubbleweeds) Order - Aerobullales Order - Bullovinales (Hereus flora) Order - Eusaganiphycales (less-derived aquatic bubbleweeds) Class - Conflagropsida (land bubbleweeds) Order - Arcocaudacales (arch flora, “arc-trunks”) Family - Nebularhizaceae (air-arches) Order - Ignisporales (inferno trees) Order - Bullocactales Division - Vandruoria (vandriswoops) Class - Vandruoropsida Order - Vandruales Family - Pillunanaceae Family - Laciyennasaltaceae (Retigroenx) Family - Ambiyennataceae (Yumerhing) Family - Aurisporaceae (vulkyen) Order - Agrostomimales Family - Aureupoaceae Division - Caelucarpae (purjephen and descendants, “sky-fruits”) Clade - Testudohexapodiae Division - Phoenophycae Class - Feturadiopsida Order - Auraphorales (humms) Order - Ramphophyllales Division - Euhexapodia Class - Silicostracopsida (testudiatoms) Class - Hexapodiopsida (early purple algae) Order - Archaeopeda (early anipedes) Family - Atrumreptidae Family - Bullocaulidae Order - Scorpiocarida (stem-krillipedes) Family - Scorpiocaridae Family - Contortocaridae (nautipedes) Family - Nedidae (nedes) Order - Saganiphausacea (krillipedes) Family - Protoremidae (krillipedes) Family - Speleacaridae (cavepedes) Family - Yoktocaridae (islepedes) Family - Perambulacaridae (vivus island pedes) Family - Zoidbergidae (zoisters) Order - Anipterygia (centiworms) Superfamily - Diplosuroidea (inchers) Order - Krakowophida (slitherworms) Family - Pterigyophidae (arthrofins) Family - Scorpiophidae (scropodiles) Family - Eukrakowophidae (true slitherworms) Order - Ichthyoscolopendriformes (seadragoldens) Order - Tricauliformes (tregons) Family - Trispondylidae Family - Triscolidae (triple seadragolden) Order - Campanocephaliformes (echofins) Order - Remipterygiformes (centifins) Order - Teratocrinoformes (trapinouts) Family - Teratocrinidae (basal trapinouts) Family - Polycrinidae (everything descending from the colonial trapinout) Family - Viisipreseidae (spoisoreth and descendants) Family - Ambulocrinidae (kleparthirs) Family - Plokamocribridae (trapinfilters, name means roughly ‘tentacle sieve’) Order - Stygiognathiformes (marfos+ventraps) Order - Stilletiformes (Xxeljets and allies, everything not descending from the marollon) Family - Xxelidae Clade - Eusaganisqualia Order - Dracosqualiformes (scylarians) Family - Dracosqualidae (basal scylarians) Family - Teratocetidae (lyngbakrs) Family - Hafagufidae (thrasher scylarian and descendants) Family - Infernocetidae (rhodix scylarians) Family - Slaesosauridae Order - Snalinia (snarks) Family - Snalinidae (luceremundare serpentes and basal snarks) Family - Bhuyawmhidae (gharks) Family - Snallachiidae (brute snarks) Family - Branchiorhinidae (comet snark and gillcrests) Order - Rapacicetes (snatches) Family - Hydrocollidae (crown-snatches) Clade - Protosaganispondyla Order - Volociformes Order - Carposerpentes Superorder - Lactaphorae (shrew fauna) Order - Soricilacertiformes (paraphyletic - sprawling, reptiloid shrews other than the vampire shrews, stems to the extant crown-groups) Order - Carpolycaformes (basal shrew fauna, “synapsidoids”) Family - Cynopithecidae (wolf shrews and cantros. Although the family itself is innocent of such horrors, in the realm of Unexistence, a terrifying abomination known as the Chimpus now lies, blissfully forgotten by the clean, ignorant lands of Sagan 4.) GLORY TO CHIMLOPZOK Subfamily - Cynoraptorininae (wolf shrews) Subfamily - Parasumininae (cantros) Family - Lutrisauridae (aqua-shrews) Family - Cthonomystacidae (Basilotter) Order - Soriciformes Family - (shroots, xolagoba) Family - Chuttidae (chuts) Family - Mythotheridae (jovigluts) Subfamily - Porcotherinae (Whiskerpicks) Subfamily - Jaydohtherinae (quilltails) Family - Scutocastoridae (tamows) Family - Phascosoricidae (Leemalla) Family - Soricidae (neoshrew)(superfamily if Dorite’s shrews get passed, maybe even higher) Order - Vampiritheria (Blood-shrews; protomammal grade to the more crown-mammal like Soriciformes) Family - Nyctocheilidae (Creepers and Gliders) Family - Physallidermatidae (Bubbleskins, literally “bubble-skins”) Family - Soriparasitidae (Soriparasites) Family - Vampiridae (Basal vampiritheres) Order - Prosubigosauriformes Order - Capuiformes Superfamily - (mirageboks/capoos) Superfamily - Capirioidea Family - Eucapiridae (basal capiris) Family - Lophocapiridae (capisails, capicrests, various marine capiris) (several subfamilies) Family - Phantasmatheridae (Wraith Capiri etc.) Order - Tripodisauriformes (Roamers) Family - Proboscisauridae (Probiscisaurus) Family - Acrotheridae (Forest Roamer) Family - Camporopisidae (Savannah Roamer and Nomad) Order - Onychosauriformes Superfamily - Unguicornoidea (antlerclaws) Suborder - Ungulures Superfamily - Xatatheroidea (Glasseaters, Xatas) Subfamily - Plumosobovinae (feathered glasseaters) Subfamily - Ballistiphantinae (xatashots; name is a portmanteau, with hopefully a smooth transitioning of vowels. Literally “slingshot-elephants”, referencing the basal representative’s ability to shoot pinprong spikes like a bullet) Subfamily - Cinguladorsinae (xatazelles, “belt-backs”) Subfamily - Xatatherinae Family - Kentauropodidae (grubnubs) Family - Monunguidae (tailhoppers) Family - Binfordsauridae (basal ungulures) Clade - Floiodanchomaria (sawgnaws, shoveltails) Suborder - (dwellers) Family - Scansinychidae (arboreal dwellers) Family - Fistulonaridae (snorkelcrests) Order - Azelachiformes (azelaks) Family - Azelemuridae (Azelemurs) Family - Megalachidae (wooly azelak and descendants) Family - Lanaraptoridae (azeraptors) Family - Euazelachidae (basal azelaks) Subclass - Metasauria Clade - Podometasauria (snappers) Order - Tectoptera (skysnappers) Family - Passerisauridae (later skysnappers) Order - Dorsaurosauria (earbacks) Family - Anoptidae (crown earbacks) Family - Actinosauridae (stem-earbacks) Order - Eusaganichelonii (basal turtsnappers) Order - Fluniformes (flunes) Family - Eufluninae (basal flunes) Family - Theroflunidae (flunejaws) Family - Bufoflunidae (toadtugas) Order - Teguloterguformes (tile+thornbacks) Suborder - Acanthomoi (thornbacks, “thorned-shoulders”) Suborder - Stegocorni Suborder - Stegolacertae (lizard-like tilebacks, probably polyphyletic) Order - Refulgisauria (glowsnappers+yellowfeens) Family - Neoluceremundaridae (yellowfeens, chromocanths - including the cave volox would make this taxon polyphyletic) Family - (cave volox) Family - Pharocaudidae (signaltails, literally “lighthouse-tails”) Family - Nautichelonidae (hullbacks) Family - Pseudosauropodidae (sailshells, sailmails) Family - Tronasauridae (Glowoggs) Family - Nitercanthidae (Glowspikes) (several more families and possibly subfamilies) Clade - Sublabromotus Order - Saganophidia (limblesses+seaswimmers) Superfamily - Teratophoidea (stem-limblesses, i.e. everything not descended from the rainforest limbless) Superfamily - Eusaganophidioidea (True limblesses) * Family - Paratedjavidae (descendants of the Squat Limbless other than the Wadjet and descendants) *Family - Tedjavidae (Wadjet and (at the moment presumed) descendants) *Family - Gyrinophidae (Serpmanders and allies) Superfamily - Ophanguilloidea (seaswimmers) Order - Eudigitogradia (wadjetsaurs, attercops etc.) Family - Brachiophidae (“armed” wadjetsaurs inc. deflatersaur) Family Arachnochelidae (attercops) Order - Sledobelonia (sledos) Order - Prototentaculata (basal filtersquids) Family - Teratophantasmidae (midnight filtersquids, literally “monster-ghosts”) Order - Trichoramaformes (bristlesquids) Family - Trepaniteuthidae Order - Krakeniformes (“higher” carposquids) Superfamily - Dixonipodoidea (land carposquids, etymology references Dougal Dixon, one of the main people who conceptualized The Future is Wild, infamous for its implausible speculations of terrestrial cephalopoda) Family - Frigiherpetidae (teuthopin and descendants, literally “cold-crawlers”) Family - Acroherpetidae (ovimari and cousins, literally “raised-crawlers”) Family - Eukrakenidae (giant carposquids) Superfamily - Hydronektoidea (hydrogen squids) Family - Vesicornithidae (skyskimmers) Family - Plotornithidae (hydroskimmers) Phylum - Pentaflagellata Division - Nigricaulids (sporestalks) Class - Labiafloropsida (crown-sporestalks) Many subclades (finish later) Class - Salinifloropsida (stem-sporestalks) Division - Obsidasterae (starflora) Division - Argentophyta (droopgea) Class - Argentofuscids Order - Puterlibetales Order - Plotorhizales (bubble droopgea) Family - Haplobullaceae Subfamily - Epilophoideae (crowned droopgea) Family - Diplobullaceae Division - Algaaquilids (black algae) Class - Oplismovermidia Subclass - Brachiovermes (fessurums) Order - Leptobrachia (descendants of the grasping fessurum - crown group) Order - Brevibrachia (stem-fessurums) Subclass - (descendants of the aquatic plateworm) Superorder - Ferratimorpha (crusher worms) Order - Sanguicimeciformes (gusherworms) (polyphyletic???) Family - Xenoculicidae (gushstriders) Order - Annulaplacacea (rustlings, “ring-plates”) Family - Talpacephidae (tunneling rustlings, “mole-head”) Order - Petrostracaformes (tetsudos) Family Litupetridae (crawling tetsudo) Family Auripodidae (walking tetsudos) Order - Ferratiformes (basal crusher-worms) Superorder - Tegovermimorpha (basal plateworms) Order - Ferrohirudinea (suckiron and descendants) Order - Unguigradea (basal plateworms) Family - Malleafronsidae (magnethead)
 * Order - Entomosauriformes (lizardworms)
 * Families? Superfamilies?
 * Subkingdom - Nimbuzoa (nimbuses)
 * Phylum - Segmentocaudazoa (krakowpedes)
 * Class - Anipeda (krillipedes-bubblepedes)
 * Class - Pluriptera
 * Class - Abyssovermes (trapper fauna)
 * Kingdom - Carpozoa (In another timeline, this kingdom would be among the only few notable “animal” lineages, but in Sagan 4 Alpha, Carpozoa is only among the largest of many independent lineages of fauna. All extant multicellular carpofauna in this timeline derive from the Carpotesta Luceremundare, as neither the versatile Lilstar, the fungus-like Carpotesta linkteneresca, or the various multitenerescan predator microbes evolved in this timeline. Coincidentally, the early voloxes and geletaventrians possess remarkable physiological convergences at a glance, save for only one pair of eyes, a mouth rimmed with tentacles, and gills closer to the mouth in the ancient Carpotesta Devoratori, whereas the Volox Luceremundare possesses three pairs of eyes and no oral tentacles.)
 * Phylum - Saganispondyla (Notably, this phylum contains only a few extant aquatic lineages. By comparison, the geletaventria - the phylum’s closest alternate counterpart - are quite diverse in marine ecosystems of all photic strata and have only recently forayed onto dry land, those being the Scarletshell Sandhopper and its descendants)
 * Class - Saganisqualia
 * Clade - Saganipoda (the suffix “-theria” is rarely used outside of describing mammal-like taxa)
 * Class - Caudapodia
 * Family - (stem-xatatheres)
 * Family - Hyalophagidae (glasseaters)
 * Family - Xatatheridae (xatas)
 * Class - Saganisauria
 * Family - Loricacollidae
 * Family - Ouranomatidae (Skywatchers)
 * Family - Jasconidae
 * (are any more Ophanguilloid families needed?)
 * Phylum - Marephantasmozoa (The closest equivalent clade on an alternate Sagan 4 would be the Carpolantia, which is represented by similarly molluscan and cnidarian-like fauna, although very few possess actual tentacles.)
 * Class - Tentaculata
 * Phylum - Protocarpozoa
 * Class - Huggkruomorpha
 * Order - Carpotestae
 * Order - Protoluceremundariformes
 * Kingdom - Krakowozoa
 * Phylum - Krakowlimia (shrubites)
 * Kingdom - Melanophyta
 * Kingdom - Magneferrubiota (i feel siderozoa is still a good name, as “sidero-” refers to rust, and basal representatives metabolize iron oxides. Perhaps we can reach a compromise? “Siderobiota?”)
 * Phylum - Ferrovermes

Class - Oropedia Order - Gelupiscatoriformes (ice-angler oropede) Order - Anoculoformes (eyeless oropedes) Class - Pentopthalamidia (opabirons) Class - Vorticastomidia (ferrumvac) Class - Sideroradiciopsida (rooted ironflora) Subclass - Sentidae (irontangles and voltflora) Superorder - Solerucanae (voltflora) Superorder - Textomorphanae (other irontangles and allies) Order - Siderotextales (ironwebs) Order - Reticulales (ironetworks) Subclass - Ferropomatidae (ironcrops) Order - Magnoflorales (magnoflora) Subclass - Ferrogramenidae (ironweeds) Order - Ferropumpkinales (ironkin) Order - Ferrosphaerales (ironbuds) Phylum - (colony cells) Phylum - (iron forts) Order - Fossiformes (burrarorms and close kin) Order - Proscoliciformes (basal rorms) Order - Cnidoscoliciformes (spinderorms) Order - Branchioscoliformes (gillrorms) Order - Hortavermiformes (pukais) Family - Melligastridae (honeypots) Family - Trematostomidae (basal pukais) Family - Protohortavermidae (stem-pukais) Order - Ammocheliformes (muckrakers, literally “sand-claws”) Order - Gelisagittaformes (necarrows, literally “cold-arrows”) Subkingdom - Silexivoridia (silex praevius and Cryoflows) Does silex belong here? I suppose this presents a similar dilemna as the binucleozoa, in which two independent lineages of microbe become a single lineage of endosymbionts, but since the binucleids are a single clade, i suppose we could keep the sileces here Subkingdom - Cryophyta Division - Kyanophyta (Kyanoses) Division - Hyalophyta (literally “glass-plants”) Class - Vitricaulae (cryostalks) Class - Rotosporae (cryodomes) Order - Concavales (cryobowls) Family - Aestolaboceae (glasstowers and glassleaves) Family - Scaphiumestuceae (true cryobowls) Order - Crepitoconvecales (explosive cryodomes) Order - Eucryotholales (basal cryodomes) Family - Conservatoriceae (greenhouse domes) Class - Comodentia (feeders) Class - Repensia (crawlers) Order - (provuci) Order - (leteti) Order - (stisnite) Order - (jedec) Order - (teci) Class - Xepetogomaea (darters) Class - Trepanomorpha (diggers) Class - Xaphryzoria (skimmers) Phylum - (mason trisphorus) Class - Pluribiotae Order - Rojiformes Family - Efferidae Family - Symplacidae (fused-shell and gömböc roj) Order - Transostracaformes Family - Terraphagidae (dirteaters) Phylum - Myxoformazoa (oozes) Class - Masonicaulopsida Class - Annulopsida Division - Twinkiirontia (twinkiiros) Subkingdom - Luminiphilia (luminuseven+redmosses) Division - Rhodobryopsida Class - Osteophycae (literally “bone-seaweeds”) Order - Osteostipales (boneflora crown-group) Class - Rubiphytae Order - Rubiphytales Order - Aurantiphytales Subkingdom - Asterophyta (are these crastrums?) yes Division - Asterfolia-𝛂? (probably too obtuse. Any less contrived alternatives?) Subkingdom - Chlorocytobiota (Chlorocytuses) Division - Euglenamimia
 * Phylum - Ferromycetes
 * Kingdom - Cilliognathiazoa
 * Phylum - Cilliognathata
 * Phylum - (rorms+arrowheads)
 * Class - Salinascolicia (rorms)
 * Class - Doryucephalia (arrowheads)
 * Kingdom - Kyanozoa
 * Kingdom - Trinucleata
 * Clade - Hexanucleata
 * Phylum - Masonipeda
 * Phylum - Ostracogenata
 * Kingdom - Flaviphyta
 * Division - Masoniphyta (Mason flora)
 * Kingdom - Viridisagania

Phylum - Haplogastrizoa (basal foi) Class - Endomyzontia (sucker foi) Class - Extoileisizoa (basal foi) Phylum - Myriagastrizoa (charybdis foi, foi made of multiple monomer units) Class - Charybdiazoa Phylum - Renizoa Class - Reniformae Order - Bliniforma Order - Pseudoanthozoa Family - 	Thylacopolypidae Family - Polypifloridae Order - Curallia Family - Siderogastridae Order - Eureniformae. Family - Phoenokarpatidae Phylum - Metathermizoa (multicellular vulcanizoa) Class - Kerychida (keryhs) Phylum - Hydrothermizoa (hydrothermus) Phylum - Saganichaotia (we really need some testate-amoeba like ones don’t we?) Phylum - Goliathpseudopodia (These would become a fairly successful clade of unicellular “animals” in another timeline - especially a clade of huge microbes, cells reaching the centimeters in sheer size, and reinforced with testae of detritus both organic and inorganic - but in Sagan 4 Alpha, this entire clade was swiftly made extinct in the End-Huggian coronal mass ejection) Phylum - Infinitabiota (infinituses) Clade (Superphylum?) - Cuniculamoebida (lithamoeba, Methanophagus)??? Yes or no? Maybe?though things like goliath and chaos are predatory cells, while the lithamoebas are pretty dissimilar in behavior, metabolizing/oxidizing inorganic material Kingdom - Microdendrontia Division - Megadendrontiphyta Class - Megadendrontopsida Order - Megadendrontales
 * Superkingdom - Mesosaganizoa
 * Kingdom - Gastroboskia (foi)(Proper foi would not evolve on an alternate Sagan 4, but remarkably similar lifeforms would arise from a kingdom of lithotrophic microbes, feeding on deposits of manganese and other metallic oxides, as well as organic detritus, though future descendants would parasitically feed on iron-rich blood. These analogue “foi” are also verifiably polynucleate, whereas with this universe’s foi, we can only assume.)
 * Kingdom - Reniformabiota
 * Kingdom - Cytovirii (Eukaryaviruses, penitoflora coli descendants??)
 * Kingdom - Vulcanizoa
 * Kingdom - Sagamoebae
 * Kingdom - Refulgibiota (flash cells and flashkelps)
 * Kingdom - Teproutinia

Kingdom - Flovaniozoa (flovars) Kingdom - (solumcrusta) Clade - Endoturbaria (microplaque) Clade - Erythrobacillales (majurums and rustcells) Clade - Mainovisiceae Clade - (kelpegs+kelpoggles) Clade - Microprobii (yanimalus probisucker, sudisflutanses) Clade - Basiliphyta (Brown Basiliphyta) Clade - Halophagia (salmundus) Clade - Remizoa (padlers) Clade - Caudazoa (beadlines, flickers, irisiri) Clade - Incredundobiota (Radiodurans Maximae and Hydrogen Burner)
 * Superkingdom - Protosaganizoa
 * Kingdom - Crustasimilis (morsuses)
 * Kingdom - Ceratozoa (prongangels)
 * Clade - Octothermazoa (octhermas, placoballs)

Glossary for potential revised names: Ankistron - Ancient Greek: fishhook Enteron - Ancient Greek: earthworm Dytes - Ancient Greek: diver Clypeus - Latin: round shield Desmos - Ancient Greek: bundle Machaira - Ancient Greek: dagger Gonia - Ancient Greek: angled Strongylos - Ancient Greek: rounded