List of defunct taxa

In the history of the Linnaean classification system, many taxa have become defunct.

Taxon	Classification(s) used	Contents
Order Agriae	Linnaeus (1748)^[1]	Anteaters and pangolins
Order Anthropomorpha	Linnaeus (1740,^[2] 1748)^[1]	1740: Primates, anteaters, and sloths 1748: Primates and sloths
Order Belluae	Linnaeus (1758,^[3] 1766)^[4]	1758: Horses and hippopotamuses 1766: as above plus pigs, and rhinoceroses
Order Bestiae	Linnaeus (1758)^[3]	Pigs, armadillos, hedgehogs, moles, shrews, and opossums
Order Bruta	Linnaeus (1758,^[3] 1766)^[4]	1758: Elephants, manatees, sloths, anteaters, pangolins 1766: as above plus armadillos
Suborder Gravigrada
Order Insectivora	Several	Hedgehog, shrews, moles, tenrecs, golden moles, solenodons, and sometimes elephant-shrews, treeshrews, and colugos
Order Jumenta	Linnaeus (1740,^[2] 1748)^[1]	1740: Shrews, horses, elephants, hippopotamuses, and pigs 1748: as above plus rhinoceroses
Order Lipotyphla
Order and/or Suborder Pachydermata		Perissodactylans, elephants, hippopotamuses, peccaries and pigs
Order Quaternates	Blainville (1839)^[5]	Gravigrada, Pachydermata and Ruminantia
Order Secundates	Blainville (1839)^[5]	Chiroptera, Insectivora and Carnivora
Genus Simia		Apes (but not humans) and monkeys
Order Tertiates	Blainville (1839)^[5]	Glires

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^ ^a ^b ^c Linnaeus, C. 1748. Systema naturae sistens regna tria naturae, in classes et ordines genera et species, redacta tabulisque aeneis illustrata. Lipsiae: Kiesewetter.
^ ^a ^b Linnaeus, C. 1740. Systema Naturae in quo Naturae Regna tria, secundum. Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, systematice proponuntur. Stockholm: Kiesewetter.
^ ^a ^b ^c Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Vol. 1: Regnum animale. Editio decima, reformata. Stockholm: Laurentii Salvii.
^ ^a ^b Linnaeus, C. 1766. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Vol. 1: Regnum animale. Editio decima, reformata. Stockholm: Laurentii Salvii.
^ ^a ^b ^c Blainville, Henri-Marie Ducrotay de (1839). "Nouvelle classification des Mammifères", Annales Françaises et Etrangères d’Anatomie et de Physiologie Appliquées à la Médicine et à l’Histoire Naturelle, 3, pp. 268-269.