Hominids

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Humans, chimpanzee	Pongo pygmaeus (orangutan)	Dryopithecinae	Gorilla
Cladus: Eukaryota Supergroup: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Mammalia Subclassis: Theria Infraclassis: Placentalia Ordo: Primates Subordo: Haplorrhini Infraordo: Simiiformes Parvordo: Catarrhini Superfamilia: Hominoidea Familia: Hominidae Subfamilia: Homininae Tribus: Hominini Subtribus: Panina (Chimpanzee), Hominina (Humans) (ref) Genus Homo Species (Recent): H. sapiens Species (fossil): H. antecessor, H. cepranensis, H. erectus, H. ergaster, H. floresiensis, H. georgicus, H. habilis, H. heidelbergensis, H. microcranous, H. neanderthalensis, H. orientalis, H. platyops, H. rhodesiensis, H. rudolfensis Genus: Ardipithecus Species: A. kadabba, A. ramidus Genus: Australopithecus Species: Australopithecus anamensis, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus bahrelghazali, Australopithecus africanus, Australopithecus garhi (ref) Genus: Praeanthropus, Sahelanthropus	Superfamilia: Hominoidea Familia: Hominidae Subfamiliae: Pongidae Genera: Pongo,  Ankarapithecus, Gigantopithecus, Hispanopithecus, Khoratpithecus,Lufengpithecus, Sivapithecus	Extinct apes of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World fossil remains of the Miocene and Pliocene Superfamilia: Hominoidea Familia: Hominidae Subfamiliae: Dryopithecinae Genus: Ankarapithecus, Anoiapithecus, Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, Chororapithecus, Dryopithecus, Gigantopithecus, Graecopithecus, Hispanopithecus, Ouranopithecus, Pierolapithecus, Praeanthropus, Sahelanthropus, Sivapithecus, Oreopithecus	Cladus: Eukaryota Supergroup: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Mammalia Subclassis: Theria Infraclassis: Placentalia Ordo: Primates Subordo: Haplorrhini Infraordo: Simiiformes Parvordo: Catarrhini Superfamilia: Hominoidea Familia: Hominidae Subfamilia: Homininae Tribus: Gorillini, Hominini, Graecopithecini (extinct)

 The taxonomy of the Hominoidea was/is in a state of flux, as molecular evidence has drawn close lines of relationship than expected. Below are two of the many older phylogenetic classifications, while above is a more established interpretation (2009). Clearly, they are not clearly defined and the final classification has not been decided.
In the Science Week reference below, they state:

"hominine: The terms hominine, hominin, hominoid, hominid, are not interchangeable, but their classification criteria are variously in a state of flux. In general, the hominoids are a primate superfamily, the hominid family comprises the great apes within the hominoid superfamily, the hominini are a "tribe" within the hominids characterized by a number of features including bipedalism, and the hominini are further partitioned into the genera Homo and Australopithecus. Concerning research in human evolution, most paleoanthropologists agree that what is important is to achieve an understanding of the evolutionary transitions and transformations, and any classification scheme must be secondary to this objective. In other words, in this context, classification must ultimately reflect phylogeny (the actual evolutionary relationships), and as knowledge of phylogeny changes, so must the extant classification schemes."