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Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described—of which around 1 million are insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million in total. Animals range in size from 8.5 millionths of a metre to 33.6 metres (110 ft) long and have complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs.
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...
This is a list of common affixes used when scientifically naming species, particularly extinct species for whom only their scientific names ... names of animals. ...
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population [a] Falkland Islands wolf† D. australis (Kerr, 1792) Falkland Islands at tip of South America: Size: Unknown Habitat: Grassland and shrubland [31] Diet: Unknown [31] EX 0 [b] [31] South American fox† D. avus (Burmeister, 1866) Southern ...
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population [a] Clouded leopard. N. nebulosa (Griffith, 1821) Scattered Southeast Asia and southern China (current in red, historical range in green) Size: 69–108 cm (27–43 in) long, 61–91 cm (24–36 in) tail [80] Habitat: Forest and shrubland [81]
The Southeast Asian soldier fly, native to Thailand, has the longest valid scientific name for any animal, and any macroscopic organism. [5] [6] Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum (McClung 1935) Collins et al. 1994 - family Thermoanaerobacteraceae.
Names for the species include the common raccoon, [7] North American raccoon, [8] and northern raccoon. [9] In various North American native languages, the reference to the animal's manual dexterity, or use of its hands is the source for the names. [ 10 ]