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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, prokaryote, microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria have a wide range of shapes, ranging from spheres to rods and spirals....
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Eukaryota | Domain |
A eukaryote (pronounced /juːˈkæriɒt/ or /juːˈkærioʊt/) is an organism whose cells contain complex structures inside the membranes. The defining membrane-bound structure that sets eukaryotic cells apart from prokaryotic cells is the nucleus, or...
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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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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 member of a large group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. The Fungi (pronounced /ˈfʌndʒaɪ/ or /ˈfʌŋɡaɪ/) are classified as a...
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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 animals which are either vertebrates or one of several closely related invertebrates. They are united by having, for at least some period of their life cycle, a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits,...
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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. About 58,000 species of vertebrates have been described. Vertebrata is the largest subphylum of chordates, and contains many familiar groups of large...
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| x Mammal |
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Mammalia | Class |
Mammals (formally Mammalia) are a class of vertebrate, air-breathing animals whose females are characterized by the possession of mammary glands while both males and females are characterized by sweat glands, hair and/or fur, three middle ear bones...
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Perissodactyla | Order |
The odd-toed ungulates are browsing and grazing mammals such as horses, tapirs and rhinoceroses whose hooves each feature an odd number of toes. The middle toe on each hoof is also usually larger than its neighbors. Together, odd-toed ungulates form...
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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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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 Russia in 1909.
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, specifically China and...
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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, lorisids, galagos, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes (including...
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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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Homo | Genus |
Homo is the genus that includes modern humans and species closely related to them. The genus is estimated to be about 2.5 million years old, evolving from Australopithecine ancestors with the appearance of Homo habilis. The advent of Homo coincides...
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Homo sapiens sapiens | Subspecies |
Human beings.
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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 /ni(ː)ˈændərtɑːl/, /ni(ː)ˈændərθɔːl/), or /neɪˈændərtɑːl/), also spelled 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....
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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 large group of placental mammals. It includes bats, whales, most hoofed mammals, and carnivorans, among other mammals.
Laurasiatheria was discovered on the basis of the similar gene sequences shared by the mammals belonging to it...
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| x Canidae |
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Canidae | Family |
Canidae (pronounced /ˈkænɨdiː/) is the biological family of carnivorous and omnivorous mammals that includes the wolves, foxes, jackals, coyotes, and the domestic dog; a member of this family is called a canid (/ˈkeɪnɨd/). The Canidae family is...
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| x Caniformia |
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Caniformia | Suborder | Canoidea |
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, including dogs, wolves, coyotes, and jackals, and many extinct species.
Wolves, dogs and dingos are subspecies of Canis lupus. The original referent of the English word wolf, the Eurasian Grey Wolf...
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| x Gray Wolf |
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Canis lupus | Species |
The grey wolf or gray wolf (Canis lupus), often known simply as the 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 genetic drift...
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| x Dog |
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Canis lupus familiaris | Subspecies |
The dog (Canis lupus familiaris, pronounced /ˈkeɪ.nɪs ˈluːpəs fʌˈmɪliɛərɪs/) is a domesticated form of the wolf, a member of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. The term is used for both feral and pet varieties. The domestic dog has been one...
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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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Carnivora | Order |
The diverse order Carnivora (pronounced /kɑrˈnɪvərə/ or sometimes /ˌkɑrnɪˈvɔərə/; from Latin carō (stem carn-) "flesh", + vorāre "to devour") includes over 260 species of placental mammals. Its members are formally referred to as carnivorans, while...
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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 or feline. Felids are the strictest carnivores of the sixteen mammal families in the order Carnivora. The most familiar felid is the domestic cat, which first...
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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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Felis catus | Species |
The cat (Felis silvestris catus), also known as the domestic cat or housecat to distinguish it from other felines and felids, is a small carnivorous mammal that is valued by humans for its companionship and its ability to hunt vermin and household...
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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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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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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, mostly in reference 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 averaging 2–2.7...
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Haliaeetus leucocephalus | Species |
The Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey found in North America. It is 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 White-tailed Eagle....
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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)....
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| x Euarchontoglires |
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Euarchontoglires | Superorder |
Euarchontoglires (synonymous with Supraprimates) is a clade of mammals, the living members of which include rodents and primates (including humans).
The Euarchontoglires clade is based on DNA sequence analyses and retrotransposon presence/absence...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Eudyptula | Genus |
The genus Eudyptula ("good little diver") contains two species of penguin. It is found in southern Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand and the Chatham Islands.
Eudyptula minor is commonly known as the Little Penguin, Little Blue Penguin, or Fairy...
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Spheniscus | Genus |
The banded penguins are the penguins of the Spheniscus ("wedge-shaped") genus. There are four living species of penguins known as banded penguins, and all have similar coloration. They are sometimes also known as "Jack-ass penguins" due to their...
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Megadyptes antipodes | Species |
The Yellow-eyed Penguin (Megadyptes antipodes) or Hoiho is a penguin native to New Zealand. Previously thought closely related to the Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor), molecular research has shown it more closely related to penguins of the genus...
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| x Eudyptes |
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Eudyptes | Genus |
The term Crested penguin is the name given to several species of penguin of the genus Eudyptes. The exact number varies between four and seven depending on the authority, and a Chatham Islands species may have become extinct in the 19th century. All...
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| x Southern Rockhopper Penguin |
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Eudyptes chrysocome | Species |
The Western Rockhopper Penguin, Eudyptes chrysocome, is a species of rockhopper penguin. It occurs in subantarctic waters of the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as around the southern coasts of South America.
This is the smallest yellow...
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Eudyptes pachyrhynchus | Species |
The Fiordland Crested Penguin (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus), also known as Tawaki (Maori), is a species of crested penguin from New Zealand. It breeds along the Fiordland coast and its outlying islands as well as on Stewart Island/Rakiura.
Also known as...
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