Consider a particular species, the red fox, Vulpes vulpes: the next rank above, the genus Vulpes,

comprises all the "true" foxes. Their closest relatives are in the immediately higher rank, the family
Canidae, which includes dogs, wolves, jackals, and all foxes; the next higher rank, the order Carnivora,
includes caniforms (bears, seals, weasels, skunks, raccoons and all those mentioned above), and
feliforms (cats, civets, hyenas, mongooses). As one group of the hairy, warm-blooded, nursing members
of the class Mammalia, all of the above are classified among animals with backbones in the phylum
Chordata, and with them among all animals in the kingdom Animalia. Finally, at the highest rank all of
these are grouped together with all other organisms possessing cell nuclei in the domain Eukarya.