Classification of Animals

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Title: Classification of Animals

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Classification of Animals
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Why classify?

All of us know the names of animals, such as the
dog, cat, chicken, etc.
These are called common names and they are
different for people in different countries.
Even in the same country there can be many common
names for a specific animal. For example
mountain lion, cougar and puma are all names
commonly used for the same animal.

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Why classify?

Scientists learned to classify animals according
to certain characteristics to keep track of them.
They assign a scientific name, in Latin, to each
animal.
That name is the same worldwide.

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General categories

All animals are in one general category called
Animalia.
All plants belong to a group called Plantae.
These names are called kingdoms.
There are 5 different kingdoms and animalia and
plantae are 2 of them.

Then kingdoms are divided into phyla (or phylum
for singular)
They are further divided into classes, and so on
until a group of living things with very similar
characteristics is identified.
That final group is called a species.
For example black widow and all of its
characteristics

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The Order of Classification

Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

Example Human
Animalia
Chordata (vertebrate)
Mammalia
Primates
Hominidae
Homo
Sapiens

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Scientific Name

Scientists often refer to animals by their genus
and species names.
The scientific name for human beings is Homo
sapiens

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Examples
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Web
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
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ExampleHouse Mouse
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Mus
musculus
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