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  2. List of animal classes - Wikipedia

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    There are 107 classes of animals in 33 phyla in this list. However, different sources give different numbers of classes and phyla. For example, Protura, Diplura, and Collembola are often considered to be the three orders in the class Entognatha. This list should by no means be considered complete and authoritative and should be used carefully.

  3. Taxonomic rank - Wikipedia

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    For animals, there are standard suffixes for taxa only up to the rank of superfamily. [30] Uniform suffix has been suggested (but not recommended) in AAAS [31] as -ida / ɪ d ə / for orders, for example; protozoologists seem to adopt this system. Many metazoan (higher animals) orders also have such suffix, e.g. Hyolithida and Nectaspida ...

  4. Lists of animals - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Phylum - Wikipedia

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    The term phylum was coined in 1866 by Ernst Haeckel from the Greek phylon (φῦλον, "race, stock"), related to phyle (φυλή, "tribe, clan"). [4] [5] Haeckel noted that species constantly evolved into new species that seemed to retain few consistent features among themselves and therefore few features that distinguished them as a group ("a self-contained unity"): "perhaps such a real and ...

  6. Taxonomy (biology) - Wikipedia

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    A pattern of groups nested within groups was specified by Linnaeus' classifications of plants and animals, and these patterns began to be represented as dendrograms of the animal and plant kingdoms toward the end of the 18th century, well before Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published. [37]

  7. Category:Animals - Wikipedia

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    Animals are a major group of organisms, classified as the kingdom Animalia. This category includes animals, their study, and their classification. Subcategories.

  8. Animal - Wikipedia

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    Major animal paintings include Albrecht Dürer's 1515 The Rhinoceros, and George Stubbs's c. 1762 horse portrait Whistlejacket. [201] Insects, birds and mammals play roles in literature and film, [202] such as in giant bug movies. [203] [204] [205] Animals including insects [198] and mammals [206] feature in mythology and

  9. The 50 oddest names for groups of animals - AOL

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