The taxonomic unit ‘Phylum’ in the classification of animals is...

Phylum is equivalent to division in the level of classification of plants. Classes comprising animals like fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds along with mammals constitute the next higher category called Phylum. All these, based on the common features like presence of notochord and dorsal hollow neural system, are included in phylum Chordata. In case of plants, classes with a few similar characters are assigned to a higher category called Division.