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CHORDATA (vertebrates)

Subtaxa

Rank	Taxon
Class	AMPHIBIA (amphibians)	10	35	8	21	14
Class	AVES (birds)	108	59	2	86	112
Class	MAMMALIA (mammals)	69	93	55	66	430
Class	PISCES (fish)	17	41		14	1
Class	REPTILIA (reptiles)	9	28	15	19
Class	TUNICATA (ascidians, sea-squirts, tunicates)	2	8		5
Informal	(Herbivores) (Mammalian Herbivores)	30	43	46	28	315

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Lever, C., 1977 (Introduced species)

The Naturalized Animals of the British Isles

General Works

The ARKive Project: http://www.arkive.org/	Web Site/Page
Botanical Dermatology Database (BoDD): http://bodd.cf.ac.uk/ (Skin dermatoses)	Web Site/Page

CHORDATA may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with CHORDATA:

(living)	living is ectoparasitised by larva	Phormia regina - a blue bottle or green bottle (Diptera: Calliphoridae)	van Emden, F.I., 1954
	dead is eaten by larva	Cynomya mortuorum - a blue bottle or green bottle (Diptera: Calliphoridae)	van Emden, F.I., 1954
	dead is eaten by larva	Ravinia pernix - a flesh fly (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)	van Emden, F.I., 1954
	dead is eaten by larva	Sarcophaga carnaria - a flesh fly (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)	van Emden, F.I., 1954
	dead is eaten by larva	Sarcophaga jacobsoni - a flesh fly (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)	van Emden, F.I., 1954
	is ectoparasitised by larva	Phormia terraenovae - a blue bottle or green bottle (Diptera: Calliphoridae)	van Emden, F.I., 1954
	is parasitised by larva	Calliphora - blue bottles (Diptera: Calliphoridae)	van Emden, F.I., 1954
carcass (dried)	dried carcass dead is eaten by	Trox sabulosus - a hide beetle (Coleoptera: Trogidae)	Jessop, L., 1986 [in sandy areas]
carrion	carrion dead is eaten by larva	Phormia regina - a blue bottle or green bottle (Diptera: Calliphoridae)	van Emden, F.I., 1954
corpse	corpse may house imago	Oxyomus sylvestris - a scarab beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)	Jessop, L., 1986
debris, carcass	debris of carcass dead is eaten by	Trox scaber - a hide beetle (Coleoptera: Trogidae)	Jessop, L., 1986
detritus, esp bone, corpse (dry)	dry detritus, esp bone of corpse dead is eaten by larva	Trox perlatus - a hide beetle (Coleoptera: Trogidae)	Jessop, L., 1986
flesh (decomposing)	decomposing flesh dead is eaten by larva	Lucilia sericata - Sheep Maggot Fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae)	van Emden, F.I., 1954
gut	gut is endoparasitised by larva	Sarcophaga carnaria - a flesh fly (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)	van Emden, F.I., 1954
gut	gut is parasitised by larva	Ravinia pernix - a flesh fly (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)	van Emden, F.I., 1954
matter (dead)	dead matter dead is eaten by larva	Calliphora - blue bottles (Diptera: Calliphoridae)	van Emden, F.I., 1954
matter (decaying)	decaying matter dead is eaten by larva	Calliphora - blue bottles (Diptera: Calliphoridae)	van Emden, F.I., 1954
matter (decaying)	decaying matter dung/debris may support larva	Phormia terraenovae - a blue bottle or green bottle (Diptera: Calliphoridae)	van Emden, F.I., 1954
matter (rotting)	rotting matter dung/debris may support larva	Lucilia sericata - Sheep Maggot Fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae)	van Emden, F.I., 1954
wound	wound is ectoparasitised by larva	Lucilia sericata - Sheep Maggot Fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae)	van Emden, F.I., 1954

Chordata may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

ANIMALIA
(animals)

References

Jessop, L., 1986	Dung Beetles and Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea)
van Emden, F.I., 1954	Diptera: Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata (I) Sect (a) Tachinidae and Calliphoridae

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