Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. Chordata (phylum)
8. Vertebrata (subphylum)
9. Aves (class)
10. Columbiformes (order)
11. Raphidae (extinct family)
12. Raphus (extinct genus)

Anotations

Scope note:

Extinct flightless birds native to Mauritius, first seen by Portuguese sailors about 1507. They were extinct by 1681 Dodos weighed about 50 pounds, had blue-gray plumage, a big head, a blackish bill with reddish sheath forming the hooked tip, small useless wings, stout yellow legs, and a tuft of curly feathers high on its rear end.