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> That covers about all the biology regular people see, to the extent they care about.

Insects and spiders are feeling left out.

That insects and mammals are both Animalia can be nonintuitive for preschoolers.



Parazoa (e.g., sponges), radially-symmetrical creatures (jellyfish, corals, etc.), acoelomates (flatworms, I think), pseudocoelomates (nematode parasites, roundworms), echinodermata (sand dollars, sea urchins, etc), lophotrochozoans (molluscs, some worms, many more).

A 19th century breakdown by Cuvier, influential for a long time, was: Vertebrates, arthropods, molluscs, radiates. (I don't know where worms fit.)


> That insects and mammals are both Animalia can be nonintuitive for preschoolers.

Insects and mammals both walk around. Plants and shrooms don't. Can't get more obvious than that for a kid.




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