Classification of animals

Kingdom

All living organisms are first placed into different kingdoms. There are five different kingdoms to classify life on Earth, which are Animals, Plants, Fungi, Bacteria, and Protists (single-celled organisms).

Species

Each individual species within the genus is named after it's individual features and characteristics. The names of animals are in Latin so that they can be understood worldwide, and consist of two words. The first word in the name of an animal will be the genus, and the second name indicates the specific species.

Genus

Every animal family is then divided into small groups known as genus. Each genus contains animals that have very similar features and are closely related. For example, the Cat family contains genus including small Cats and domestic Cats,Tigers, Leopards, Jaguars and Lions and Panthers and Cougars.

what is classification?

Its the arrangement of animals and plants in taxonomic groups according to their observed similarities (including at least kingdom and phylum in animals, division in plants, and class, order, family, genus, and species).

Example: Tiger

Kingdom: Animalia (Animal) Phylum: Chordata (Vertebrate) Class: Mammalia (Mammal) Genus: Panthera Species: Panthera tigris (Tiger)

Phylum

The animal kingdom is divided into 40 smaller groups, known as phylum. Here, animals are grouped by their main features. Animals usually fall into one of five different phylum which are invertebrates, vertebrates, Arthropods, Molluscs and Echinoderms.

Class

The phylum group is then divided into even smaller groups, known as classes. The vertebrates phylum splits up into Mammalia (Mammals), Bony Fish, Aves (Birds), Amphibia (Amphibians) and Reptilia (Reptiles).