Editing Order (biology) (section)

==Hierarchy of ranks==
===Zoology===
For some [[clade]]s covered by the [[International Code of Zoological Nomenclature]], several additional classifications are sometimes used, although not all of these are officially recognized.

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! Name !! Latin [[prefix]] !! Examples 
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| Magnorder || ''[[wikt:magnus#Latin|magnus]]'', 'large, great, important' || [[Boreoeutheria]] 
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| Superorder || ''[[wikt:super#Latin|super]]'', 'above' || [[Euarchontoglires]], [[Laurasiatheria]]
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| Grandorder || ''[[wikt:grandis#Latin|grandis]]'', 'large' || [[Euarchonta]], [[Ferungulata]]
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| Mirorder || ''[[wikt:mirus#Latin|mirus]]'', 'wonderful, strange' || [[Primatomorpha]], [[Ferae]]
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| Order ||  || [[Primate|Primates]], [[Procolophonomorpha]]
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| Suborder || ''[[wikt:sub#Latin|sub]]'', 'under'  || [[Haplorrhini]], [[Procolophonia]]
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| Infraorder || ''[[wikt:infra#Latin|infra]]'', 'below'  || [[Simiiformes]], [[Tarsiiformes]]
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| Parvorder || ''[[wikt:parvus#Latin|parvus]]'', 'small, unimportant'  || [[Catarrhini]], [[Baleen whale|Mysticeti]]
|}

In their 1997 classification of [[Mammal|mammals]], [[Malcolm McKenna|McKenna]] and Bell used two extra levels between superorder and order: ''grandorder'' and ''mirorder''.<ref name="McKennaBell1997">{{Citation |last1=McKenna |first1=M.C. |last2=Bell |first2=S.G. |year=1997 |title=Classification of Mammals |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-11013-6 |name-list-style=amp }}</ref> Michael Novacek (1986) inserted them at the same position. [[Michael Benton]] (2005) inserted them between superorder and magnorder instead.<ref name="MichaelJBenton2005_VPalaentology_3rd">{{cite book | last=Benton | first=Michael J. | year=2005 | title=Vertebrate Palaeontology | edition=3rd | place=Oxford | publisher=Blackwell Publishing | isbn=978-0-63205-637-8}}</ref> This position was adopted by ''Systema Naturae 2000'' and others<!-- example: http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/TaxonTree.aspx?id=67730 (Hexaprotodon liberiensis); example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomic_rank -->.

===Botany===
In [[botany]], the ranks of subclass and suborder are secondary ranks pre-defined as respectively above and below the rank of order.<ref name=botarticle4>{{harvnb|McNeill et al. 2012|Article 4|ref= McNeill}}</ref> Any number of further ranks can be used as long as they are clearly defined.<ref name=botarticle4/>

The superorder rank is commonly used, with the ending {{lang|la|-anae}} that was initiated by [[Armen Takhtajan]]'s publications from 1966 onwards.<ref>{{citation |last=Naik |first=V.N. |year=1984  |title=Taxonomy of Angiosperms |publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill  |isbn=9780074517888 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GanmtXAyU0gC |page=111}}</ref>