Furry Taxonomy

A "furry taxonomy" for reference.

This could be a handy starting point for surveys. Basically, collapsing the tree of life into anthropomorphic chunks that I've seen identified as "different things" by furries.

• Arthropods (insects, spiders, shrimp, etc)
• Cephalopods (octopi, etc)
• Piscines (fishes, etc)
• Amphibians (newts, etc)
• Reptiles (maybe split off dragons here)
• Avians (birds)

And that gets to where things start getting tricky, the mammals:

• Monotremes (spiny anteater, platypus)
• Macropods (your basic kangaroo)
• Other Australasian marsupials (there's quite a lot of variety here, but I'm trying to be minimal)
• Opossums (new world possums)
• Other new world marsupials (Yapok, etc)
• Lagomorphs (rabbits, etc)
• Rodents (maybe include shrews and hedgehogs here, though it's taxonomically iffy)
• Bats
• Primates (maybe split off lemurs, they seem more popular than other primates)
• Elephants, rhinos, hippos (this is iffy too, but people lump them together, so do eet)
• Manatees
• Whales and dolphins (which are definitely not manatees)
• Pangolins, sloths, armadillos, giant anteaters, stuff like that. (Pangolins don't technically go here but they look like they should, so whatevers.)
• Cervines (deer, antelopes)
• Sheep and goats (again, we're being slack because furry logic)
• Equines (horses and zebras)
• Miscellaneous artiodactyls (camels, stuff like that)

And finally, we're ready to take on the carnivores. Take a deep breath. There's two main divisions, feliformia (cat-like) and caniformia (dog-like). We'll do feliformia first.

• Domestic cats
• Small wild cats (the ones that go meow)
• Big cats (the ones that go roar - lions and tigers but no bears)
• Civets (actually a couple of groups go in here)
• Linsangs, genets, and other cat-like viverrids
• Hyena and aardwolf
• Fossa (Really, all by their lonesome, the other Madagascar carnivores look like covets and mongooses so we'll leave them in with those groups)
• Mongooses (actually about three groups of viverrids)
• Meerkats (actually a kind of mongoose)
• Other viverrids like the binturong.

And now we get the canoid carnivores. This group is full of surprises.

• Bears (including giant panda, for the moment, but you might split that off)
• Red Panda (all by its lonesome, or you can mix it in with the raccoons and kin)
• Obvious procyonids (raccoons, ringtail cats, Coati)
• Non-obvious procyonids (Kinkajou, Olingo)
• Seals (seals, sea-lions, etc... yes, really)
• Skunks
• Badgers
• Weasels (and kin, but probably not otters. This includes ferrets and weasels and stoats and martens and wolverines...)
• Otters (because water weasels seem to have their own fanclub)
• Domestic dogs
• Wolves (and coyotes and golden jackals and a few other basically wolves of different sizes)
• True jackals
• Red foxes and grey foxes (though they're not actually related, they get lumped together)
• Fennecs (because cute)
• Tanuki (Raccoon-dog, the ones from Pompoko)
• Cape hunting dogs and dholes (and I think that actually does it for true canines)
• South American foxes, including the maned wolf
• Other miscellaneous foxes

Phew

Anything I missed?