Taxonomy/Sandbox

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) (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.)

Class - Chlorotheria
Subclass - Comosuida (noboms)

Order - Xylodontiformes
Suborder - Xylures (post-pulmonary tail) (families might need to be revised?) Superfamily Formicomimoidea (noants)

Family - Lacertamydae (nolizards)
Subfamily - Auripodinae (eardiggers)

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.

Order - Kitriformes (ketters)
Suborder - Eukitrii (ketters) Suborder - Ambulodendrae (sanasou-ki)

Family - Mycophagidae (shroomplents)
Infraclass - Pterophylla Superorder - Pancursoria (sprinters + cousins)
 * Subclass - Dinophylla
 * Clade - Rostroferra

Order - Cursoria (crown-sprinters)

 * Suborder - Eucursoriformes
 * Superfamily - Miasmornithoidea (gasprinters)
 * Superfamily - Eucursoroidea

Family - Talpamimidae (spelunkhoes)
*Subfamily - Spatharynchinae (stem-spelunkhoes) *Subfamily - Talpamiminae *Subfamily - Thylacotalpinae (hikahoes) *Subfamily - Sagmatalpinae (leafplates, “saddle-moles”)

Family - Volanspedidae (hophorns)
*Subfamily - Macropodmiminae (stem-bounders)

Family - Conchoanatidae (leafshells, “shell-ducks”)

 * Superfamily - Spheniscimimoidea (snoas)

Family - Pachystruthidae (dobem)

 * Suborder - (everything excluding the magmasprinter and descendants)

Family - Albapteridae (White-Backed Plent and Spectre Plentutri)
Superorder - Euphylloptera

Family - Acanthophalangidae (needlewings)
*Subfamily - Phalangipodinae (plehexapods)
 * Superfamily - Eophyllopteroidea (basal phlyers)

Family - Leptorostridae (longbeak phylers)

 * Superfamily - Harpagorostroidea (hookphlyers)

Family - Mimilynidae (Aabaalki and Plesican)
*Subfamily - Saccocetinae (plesicans)

Family - Pleriemidae (Pleriema)

 * Superfamily - Apodopteroidea (sky phlyers)

Family - Spherophagidae
Subfamily - (glowlickers)

Order - Chlorocetoformes (“skywhale” plents)

 * Superorder - Barbelloferra

Order - Glossotheriformes (gulpers)
Superfamily - Brontoglossoidea (tazertongues)

Family - Brontoglossidae (basal tazertongues, Sagon)
Superfamily - Galeaglossoidea (helmeted gulpers)

Order - Ungularctimorpha (everything descending from the pleeduh)
Suborder - Pantheripodiformes (stem-hoofplents) Suborder - Unguarctiformes (crown-hoofplents, “bear-hooves”) Superfamily - Unguiarctoidea

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 - Phyllomantidae
Superorder - Pueriplentimorpha (swarmers)

Order - Cryoherpetiformes (diveskimos, “icy-crawlers”)
Superfamily - Tripoidea (triwalkers)

Family - Prototripodidae (basal triwalkers)
Superfamily - Ligniteguloidea (scaleskimos)

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.) Superclass - Quadrapodia (krilliformes)

Order - Arachnoformicida (colonial uksips)
Superorder - (ukbacks sensu lato)

Order - (urchips)
Superfamily - Ambulocochloidea (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 - Tubistomatidae (filtering urchips excluding the urstar clade)
Superfamily - Asterospinoidea (urstars)

Order - Monodontotheres (snowkys)

 * Superfamily - Xenosirenoidea

Order - Euradiazoa (basal whorls)
=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. However, with the progression of the Generations, the crystal flora must now share their dominion as terrestrial Beta flora with the Photosagnians - a unique kingdom of alternate purple flora, and the Asterfolians - an early Asterzoan branch that joined with binucleusphotedo algae to give rise to a diverse clade of organisms defying traditional b====Order====s of “plant” and “animal”. The distinctive geometrical form of the Crystalflora, while actually evolutionarily inconveniencing for a number of reasons, has been quite successfully artificially selected for throughout the planet’s history.) Division - Coelomycites 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.)

Class - Plumosovermia
SubClass - Euplumosovermia SuperOrder - Dodecapteramorpha (wingworms)

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 - Lapsovermi (sagworms)
Clade - Dinovermia

Order - Saganicarciniformes (scuttlecrabs)
SuperFamily - Kruggectoidea (kruggs)

Family - Kaijuscolidae (brute lizardworms)
SuperFamily - Textilisauroidea (gossalizards)

Class - Phobovermia
SuperOrder - Bipediformes (saucebacks)

Order - Mandibuladonta
SubOrder - Plumoplacaformes (feathered saucebacks) Families? Superfamilies? (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 - Pneumadorsiformes (gillfins, “breathing-backs”)
SuperOrder - Caudabranchia (gilltails)

Order - (longtail gilltails)
SuperOrder - Psitticacephalimorpha (parrotworms)

Family - Crustavermidae
SuperFamily - Contegovermoidea (pedesorms sensu lato)

Order - Coprostracaformes (dunghorns and descendants)
SubOrder - Folioconcha (leafhorns and descendants) SuperFamily - Pictoplacoidea (painted leafhorn and descendants)

Family - Nasokeridae (Hornsniffer)
SuperFamily - Coprostracoidea (dunghorns sensu lato)

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

Class - Siderobullopsida (rusty stickyballs and derived taxa)
Subclass - Knodospheropsida (fuzzy balls)

Family - Valandidendroceae (quilbils+gecobas)

 * Subfamily - Valandipinoideae (quones)
 * Subfamily - Valandicarpoideae (qupes)
 * Subfamily - Gecoboideae (Gecobas)

Family - Psillopinoceae (ferines)
Subfamily - Quercupinoideae (descendants of the Arid Ferine)

Family - Pulmonoidorhrhizaceae
Subamily - Riparhizoideae

Order - Phoenotyphalaes
Class - Acinumeropsida

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 - Streptorhizales (tangle roots)
Class - Saganicucurbitopsida (puffkins) Division - Venophylla Class - Venophyllopsida

Family - Xidhoraceae
Subfamily - Trabaleavoideae (Trunkplages)

Family - Venobryaceae (stem-purplages)
Division - Xenopalma (blue palms) Division - Bullophora (bubble flora) Class - Saganiphyceae (water bubbleweeds)

Order - Eusaganiphycales (less-derived aquatic bubbleweeds)
Class - Conflagropsida (land bubbleweeds)

Order - Bullocactales
Division - Vandruoria (vandriswoops) Class - Vandruoropsida

Family - Aureupoaceae
Division - Caelucarpae (purjephen and descendants, “sky-fruits”) Clade - Testudohexapodiae Division - Phoenophycae Class - Feturadiopsida

Order - Ramphophyllales
Division - Euhexapodia Class - Silicostracopsida (testudiatoms) Class - Hexapodiopsida (early purple algae) •Phylum - Segmentocaudazoa (krakowpedes) •Class - Anipeda (krillipedes-bubblepedes)

Family - Zoidbergidae (zoisters)
•Class - Pluriptera

Order - Anipterygia (centiworms)
Superfamily - Diplosuroidea (inchers) (Oh, yes, these are the ones with the lyra in it. That was a pretty cool experiment - could’ve been a bit more naturalistic, but I guess the “life-imitating-tech” schtick was kinda the point and all…. - Frathomth Shorrawassil Mahpaar Nouweek)

Order - Remipterygiformes (centifins)
•Class - Abyssovermes (trapper fauna)

Family - Xxelidae
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