Animals estimated 7.6 million species, 1.6 million catalogued

Archaea (extromophiles) 209 species

Bacteria, estimated 1 trillion species, 20,000 catalogued.

Chromista (red and brown algae) estimated 37,000 species, 13,000 cat.

Fungi (mushrooms) estimated 1 million species, 43,000 catalogued.

Plants (green plants) estimated 300,000 species, 215,644 catalogued.

Protozoa (pathogens) estimated 40,000 species, 8,000 cataloged.

There are seven divisions which are the primary divisions of the seven kingdom model, which are divided as follows:

Methinks it is due to the vastness and variety of the creation that biologists have difficulty in keeping to the seven original divisions.

In fact, most biologists are at a loss to find a standard for dividing the creation into satisfactory categories. Thus, most biologist further subdivided many of the above classifications into super classes, subfamilies, subspecies and other intermediate divisions and sub-classifications.

However, in the discussion that follows on this web site, most of these additional categories will not be used. Instead, this discussion will keep to the primary seven divisions will

Still, there are a few exceptions in which it is required to use more than the primary seven division simply due to the vastness of God′s creation.

For a long time, life was considered to be of one of two types and there was only two life kingdoms classification, animal and plant.

This was prior to the studies of the German biologist, Ernst Haeckel, who was also an illustrator, physician and a professor.

In Doctor Haeckel′s work, he discovered, described and named thousands of new species.

Thus, in 1866, his work resulting in the addition of a new life kingdom which was called Protista. This life kingdom was composed of organisms which are unicellular or unicellular-colonial but do not form tissues.

Animal, Plant, Protista.

After Doctor Haeckel, others continued with his work and in 1938, his kingdom was divided into two separate life kingdoms.

Life with a nuclear membrane came to be classified in the life kingdom Protista.

Life without a nuclear membrane came to be classified in the life kingdom Monera. Thus, the number of life kingdoms increased to four:

Animal, Plant, Monera, Protista.

In 1969, work was done to separate Fungi from the Plant Kingdom.

Thus a fifth life kingdom, the Fungi Kingdom was added to the previous four classification of life forms:

Animal, Plant, Monera, Protista, Fungi.

Then, in 1977, the Monera Kingdom was divided into two separate life kingdoms, the Archeabacteria Kingdom and the Eubacteria Kingdom making the number of Life Kingdoms now six:

Animal, Plant, Protista, Fungi, Archeabacteris, Eubacteria.

Later, the names of these two new life kingdoms were changed and now the two life kingdoms are called the Archaea and Bacteria:

Animal, Plant, Protista, Fungi, Archaea, Bacteria.

Finally, by 1998, the Protista kingdom was divided into the Protozoa and Chromista:

Animal, Plant, Chomista, Protozoa, Fungi, Archaea, Bacteria.

After years of debate on how to name all of the variety of life forms, in 2015, the seven kingdom model was proposed and seems to be the one to go with for now.

Animal, Archaea, Bacteria, Chomista, Fungi, Plant, Protozoa.