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A organism classification, such as Mammal, has a classification rank, such as Class, a scientific name, such as Mammalia, and a parent classification....
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| x Archaea |
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Archaea | Domain |
The Archaea [ɑrˈkiə] (help·info) are a group of single-celled microorganisms. A single individual or species from this domain is called an archaeon (sometimes spelled "archeon"). Archaea, like bacteria, are prokaryotes and have no cell nucleus or...
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| x Bacteria |
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Bacteria | Domain |
The bacteria [bækˈtɪərɪə] (help·info) (singular: bacterium) are a large group of unicellular microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria have a wide range of shapes, ranging from spheres to rods and spirals. Bacteria are...
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| x Eukaryote |
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Eukaryota | Domain |
A eukaryote (pronounced /juːˈkæriɒt/ or /juːˈkærioʊt/) is an organism whose cells contain complex structures enclosed within membranes. Most living organisms, including all animals, plants, fungi, and protists, are eukaryotes. The defining membrane...
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| x Animal |
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Animalia | Kingdom |
Animals are a major group of mostly multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life. Most...
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| x Plant |
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Plantae | Kingdom |
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. About 350,000 species of plants, defined as seed plants, bryophytes, ferns...
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| x Fungus |
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Fungi | Kingdom |
A fungus (pronounced /ˈfʌŋɡəs/) is a eukaryotic organism that is a member of the kingdom Fungi (pronounced /ˈfʌndʒaɪ/ or /ˈfʌŋɡaɪ/). The fungi are a monophyletic group, also called the Eumycota (true fungi or Eumycetes), that is phylogenetically...
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| x Protist |
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Protista | Kingdom |
Protists (pronounced /ˈproʊtɨst/), are a diverse group of eukaryotic microorganisms. Historically, protists were treated as the kingdom Protista but this group is no longer recognized in modern taxonomy. Instead, it is "better regarded as a loose...
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| x Chordate |
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Chordata | Phylum |
Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. They are united by having, at some time in their life cycle, a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal...
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| x Vertebrate |
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Vertebrata | Subphylum |
Vertebrates are members of the subphylum Vertebrata, chordates with backbones or spinal columns. The grouping sometimes includes the hagfish, which have no vertebrae, but are genetically quite closely related to lampreys, which do have vertebrae....
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| x Mammal |
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Mammalia | Class |
Mammals (formally Mammalia) are a class of vertebrate animals whose females are characterized by the possession of mammary glands while both males and females are characterized by sweat glands, hair, three middle ear bones used in hearing, and a...
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| x Odd-toed ungulate |
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Perissodactyla | Order |
Mesaxonians are a group of mammals that are form the, not widely accepted, superorder Mesaxonia. The superorder includes the perissodactylids, hyracoids, proboscidians, and sirenians, all part of the infraclass Eutheria. However, this group is not...
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| x Equidae |
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Equidae | Family |
Equidae (sometimes known as the horse family) is the taxonomic family of horses and related animals, including the extant horses, donkeys, and zebras, and many other species known only from fossils. All extant species are in the genus Equus. Equidae...
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| x Equus | Equus | Genus |
Equus is the only genus in the family of horse-like animals Equidae.
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| x Horse |
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Equus caballus | Species |
The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a hoofed (ungulate) mammal, a subspecies of one of seven extant species of the family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single...
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| x Wild Horse |
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Equus ferus | Species |
The wild horse (Equus ferus) is a species of the genus Equus, which includes both the domesticated horse subspecies as well as the undomesticated Tarpan and the Przewalski's Horse. The Tarpan became extinct in the 19 century, and the Przewalski's...
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| x Tarpan |
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Equus ferus ferus | Subspecies |
Tarpan (Equus ferus ferus, also known as Eurasian wild horse) is an extinct subspecies of wild horse. The last individual of this subspecies died in captivity in Ukraine in 1876.
Beginning in the 1930s, several attempts have been made to re-create...
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| x Przewalski's Horse |
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Equus ferus przewalskii | Subspecies |
Przewalski's Horse (Equus ferus przewalskii, Mongolian: Тахь, Takhi; Chinese: 野马 Yehmah/Yěmǎ), or Dzungarian Horse, is a rare and endangered subspecies of wild horse (Equus ferus) native to the steppes of central Asia. In China, the last wild...
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| x Primate |
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Primates | Order |
A primate (pronounced /ˈprаɪmeɪt/, us dict: prī′·māt) is a member of the biological order Primates (/prаɪˈmeɪtiːz/ prī·mā′·tēz; Latin: "prime, first rank"), the group that contains lemurs, the Aye-aye, lorisids, galagos, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes,...
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| x Hominidae |
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Hominidae | Family |
The Hominidae (anglicized Hominids, also known as great apes) form a taxonomic family, including four extant genera: chimpanzees, gorillas, humans and orangutans.
A number of known extinct genera are grouped with humans in the Hominina subtribe,...
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| x Homo |
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Homo | Genus |
Homo is the genus that includes modern humans and their close relatives. The genus is estimated to be about 2.5 million years old, evolving from Australopithecine ancestors with the appearance of Homo habilis. Appearance of Homo coincides with the...
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| x Human |
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Homo sapiens sapiens | Subspecies |
A human is a member of a species of bipedal primates in the family Hominidae (taxonomically Homo sapiens—Latin: "wise man" or "knowing man"). DNA and fossil evidence indicates that modern humans originated in east Africa about 200,000 years ago....
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| x Homo Sapiens | Homo sapiens | Species |
Homo sapiens is a biological species in the genus homowith notable subspecies homo sapiens sapiens (human).
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| x Neanderthal |
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Homo neanderthalensis | Species |
The Neanderthal (pronounced /neɪˈændərtɑːl/ or /niːˈændərθɔːl/), or Neandertal, is an extinct member of the Homo genus that is known from Pleistocene specimens found in Europe and parts of western and central Asia. Neanderthals are either classified...
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| x Ungulate |
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Ungulata | Superorder |
Ungulates (meaning roughly "being pawed" or "hoofed animal") are several groups of mammals, most of which use the tips of their toes, usually hoofed, to sustain their whole body weight while moving. They make up several orders of mammals, of which...
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| x Laurasiatheria |
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Laurasiatheria | Superorder |
Laurasiatheria is a clade of rank cohort or super-order, within the Placentalia (living) or Eutheria (Placentals and their extinct ancestors) infraclass of mammals, based on DNA sequence analyses and Retrotransposon presence/absence data. The name...
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| x Canidae |
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Canidae | Family |
Canidae (pronounced /ˈkænɨdiː/ or /ˈkeɪnɨdiː/) is the biological family of the dogs; a member of this family is called a canid (/ˈkeɪnɨd/). They include wolves, foxes, coyotes, and jackals. The Canidae family is divided into the "true dogs" of the...
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| x Caniformia |
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Caniformia | Canoidea | Suborder |
Caniformia, or Canoidea (literally "dog-like") are a suborder within the order Carnivora. They typically possess a long snout and non-retractile claws (in contrast to the cat-like carnivores, the Feliformia). The Pinnipedia (seals, sea lions, and...
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| x Canis |
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Canis | Genus |
Canis is a genus containing 7 to 10 extant species and many extinct species, including dogs, wolves, coyotes, and jackals.
Wolves and dogs are subspecies of Canis lupus. The Eurasian Grey Wolf (Canis lupus lupus) differs significantly in appearance...
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| x Gray Wolf |
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Canis lupus | Species |
The grey wolf or gray wolf (Canis lupus), also known as the timber wolf or simply wolf, is the largest wild member of the Canidae family. It is an ice age survivor originating during the Late Pleistocene around 300,000 years ago. DNA sequencing and...
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| x Dog |
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Canis lupus familiaris | Subspecies |
The dog (Canis lupus familiaris, pronounced /ˈkeɪ.nis ˈluːpəs fʌˈmɪliɛəris/) is a domesticated subspecies of the Gray Wolf, a member of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. The term is used for both feral and pet varieties. The domestic dog...
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| x Feliformia |
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Feliformia | Suborder |
The Feliformia ("cat-like" carnivores, also Feloidea) are a suborder within the order Carnivora and includes cats (large and small), hyenas, mongooses, civets and related taxa. The other suborder of Carnivora is Caniformia ("dog-like" carnivores)....
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| x Carnivora |
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Carnivora | Order |
A carnivore (pronounced /ˈkɑrnɪvɔər/), meaning 'meat eater' (Latin carne meaning 'flesh' and vorare meaning 'to devour'), is an animal that derives its energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of vertebrate and...
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| x Felidae |
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Felidae | Family |
Felidae is the biological family of the cats; a member of this family is called a felid. Felids are the strictest carnivores of the sixteen mammal families in the order Carnivora. The most familiar felid is the Domestic Cat, which first became...
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| x Felinae |
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Felinae | Subfamily |
Felinae is a subfamily of the family Felidae which includes the genera and species listed below. Most are small to medium-sized cats, although the group does include some larger animals, such as the Cougar and Cheetah. The earliest records of the...
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| x Felis |
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Felis | Genus |
Felis is a genus of cats in the family Felidae.
The genus is composed of these species:
However, the understanding of Felidae phylogenetic relationships is changing rapidly as the genome of the domestic cat is sequenced. These are a few of the...
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| x Felis silvestris | Felis silvestris | Species |
Felis silvestris is a species containing the subspecies Felis silvestris catus (cat).
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| x Cat |
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Felis silvestris catus | Subspecies |
The cat (Felis catus), also known as the domestic cat or house cat to distinguish it from other felines and felids, is a small predatory carnivorous species of crepuscular mammal that is valued by humans for its companionship and its ability to hunt...
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| x Bird |
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Aves | Class |
Birds (class Aves) are winged, bipedal, endothermic (warm-blooded), vertebrate animals that lay eggs. There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the...
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| x Falconiformes |
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Falconiformes | Order |
The order Falconiformes is a group of about 290 species of birds that comprises the diurnal birds of prey. Raptor classification is difficult and the order is treated in several ways.
Traditionally, all the raptors are grouped into four families in...
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| x Accipitridae |
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Accipitridae | Family |
The Accipitridae is one of the two major families within the order Accipitriformes (the diurnal birds of prey). Many well-known birds, such as hawks, eagles, kites, harriers and Old World vultures are included in this group. The Osprey is usually...
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| x Aquila |
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Aquila | Genus |
Aquila is the genus of true eagles. It is often united with the buteos, sea eagles and other more heavyset Accipitridae, but more recently it appears as if they are less distinct from the more slender accipitrine hawks than believed. Eagles are not...
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| x Golden Eagle |
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Aquila chrysaetos | Species |
The Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is one of the best known birds of prey in the Northern Hemisphere. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. Once widespread across the Holarctic, it has disappeared from many of the more heavily...
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| x Sea eagle |
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Haliaeetus | Genus |
A sea eagle (also called erne or ern, which are rare except applied to the White-tailed Eagle) is any of the birds of prey in the genus Haliaeetus in the bird of prey family Accipitridae.
Sea-eagles vary in size, from the Sanford's Fish-eagle...
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| x Bald Eagle |
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Haliaeetus leucocephalus | Species |
The Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey found in North America that is most recognizable as the national bird and symbol of the United States of America. This sea eagle has two known sub-species and forms a species pair with the...
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Eutheria | Infraclass |
Eutheria (Greek: "true beasts") are a group of mammals consisting of placental mammals plus all extinct mammals that are more closely related to living placentals (such as humans) than to living marsupials (such as kangaroos). They are distinguished...
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| x Theria |
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Theria | Subclass |
Theria (pronounced /ˈθɪərɪə/, from the Greek θηρίον, wild beast) is a subclass of mammals that give birth to live young without using a shelled egg, including both eutherians (placental mammals) and metatherians (marsupials and their ancestors).
The...
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| x Euarchontoglires |
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Euarchontoglires | Superorder |
The Euarchontoglires (synonymous with Supraprimates) are a mammalian superorder based on molecular genetic sequence analyses and retrotransposon presence/absence data, combining the Glires clade, which consists of the Rodentia and the Lagomorpha,...
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| x Cetacea |
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Cetus | Order |
The order Cetacea (pronounced /sɨˈteɪʃ(i)ə/, L. cetus, whale, from Greek) includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Cetus is Latin and is used in biological names to mean "whale"; its original meaning, "large sea animal", was more general. It comes...
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| x Toothed whale |
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Odontoceti | Suborder |
The toothed whales (systematic name Odontoceti) form a suborder of the cetaceans, including sperm whales, beaked whales, orca, dolphins, and others. As the name suggests, the suborder is characterized by having teeth, rather than baleen as do...
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| x Oceanic dolphin |
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Delphinidae | Family |
Oceanic dolphins are the members of the Delphinidae family of cetaceans. These aquatic mammals are related to whales and porpoises. They are found worldwide, mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves. As the name implies, these...
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| x Tursiops | Tursiops | Genus |
Tursiops is a biological genus containing the species Bottlenose Dolphin.
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Tursiops truncatus | Species |
Bottlenose dolphins, the genus Tursiops, are the most common and well-known members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphins. Recent molecular studies show the genus contains two species, the Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops...
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| x River dolphin |
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Platanistoidea | Superfamily |
River dolphins are four living species of dolphin which reside in freshwater rivers and estuaries. They are classed in the Platanistoidea superfamily of cetaceans. Three species live in fresh water rivers. The fourth species, the La Plata Dolphin,...
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| x Penguin |
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Sphenisciformes | Order |
Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the southern hemisphere, especially in Antarctica, where they are most well-known for living. Highly adapted for life in the...
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| x Spheniscidae | Spheniscidae | Family |
Spheniscidae is the main biological family in the Penguin order.
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Aptenodytes | Genus |
The genus Aptenodytes (from the Ancient Greek a/α 'without' pteno-/πτηνο- 'feather' or 'wing' and dytes/δυτης 'diver') contains two extant species of penguins collectively known as "the great penguins".
Ridgen's Penguin (Aptenodytes ridgeni) is an...
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| x Emperor Penguin |
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Aptenodytes forsteri | Species |
The Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica. The male and female are similar in plumage and size, reaching 122 cm (48 in) in height and weighing anywhere from 22...
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| x King Penguin |
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Aptenodytes patagonicus | Species |
The King Penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) is the second largest species of penguin at about 11 to 16 kg (24 to 35 lb), second only to the Emperor Penguin. There are two subspecies - A. p. patagonicus and A. p. halli; patagonicus is found in the...
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| x Spheniscinae | Spheniscinae | Subfamily |
Spheniscinae is the biological subfamily of the family Spheniscidaecontaining the "great penguins".
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| x Pygoscelis |
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Pygoscelis | Genus |
The genus Pygoscelis ("elbow-legged") contains three living species of penguins collectively known as "The Brush-Tailed Penguins". Their appearance - black above, white below - is the stereotypical image penguins, and so what most people think of...
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