Animal Classification Flashcards

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Phylum Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Orders?

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Salmoniformes
Scorpaeniformes
Perciformes
Lepidosireniformes

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Order SalmoniformesExamples?

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Coho salmon

Chinook Salmon

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Order ScorpaeniformesExamples?

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Copper rockfish
Quillback rockfish
Blue rockfish
China rockfish
Tiger rockfish
Canary rockfish
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Order PerciformesExamples?

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 E African cichlids Tilapia  Demonfish Surfperch Crested gunnel Blackeye Goby

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Order Lepidosireniformesexample?

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 African lungfish

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Class AmphibiaOrders?

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CaudataAnura

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Order Caudataexample?

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 northern roughskin newt

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Order Anuraexamples?

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 Western toad Pacific tree frog Madagascar tomato frog African bullfrog American bullfrog Northern leopard frog Oregon spotted frog

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Class ReptiliaExamples?

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Order SquamataOrder TestudinesOrder Crocodylia

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Order testudinesExamples?

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 Pacific (Western) pond turtle western painted turtle red-eared slider ornate box turtle giant South American river turtle desert tortoise African pancake tortoise leopard tortoise Hingeback tortoise

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Order SquamataExamples?

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 common agama Philippine sail-finned water Inland bearded dragon Mali spiny-tailed lizard desert iguana Green iguana Leopard Gecko eastern blue-tongued skink southern alligator lizard Nile monitor Central American boa emerald tree boa green anaconda rubber boa Mexican rosy boa Burmese python ball python African rock python cornsnake Taiwan beauty snake Sonoran black kingsnake California mountain kingsnake Pacific gopher snake gopher snake northwestern gartersnake

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Order CrocodyliaExamples?

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 dwarf caiman African slender-snouted crocodile

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Class AvesOrders?

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GalliformesAnseriformesSphenisciformesCiconiiformesFalconiformesGruiformesCharadriiformesColumbiformesPsittaciformesCuculiformesStrigiformesColiiformesCoraciiformesBucerotiformesPasseriformes

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Order Galliformes

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 Araucana chicken (domestic)  bantam chicken (domestic)

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Order Anseriformes

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 fulvous whistling duck  white-faced whistling duck  North American wood duck  pintail  common shoveler  cinnamon teal  Swedish blue (domestic)  Indian runner duck (domestic) Hottentot teal  redhead  bufflehead  Barrow’s goldeneye  long-tailed duck hooded merganser  red-crested pochard  ruddy duck

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Order Sphenisciformes

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 Humboldt penguin

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Order Ciconiiformes

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 hadada ibis  sacred ibis  cattle egret  hammerkop

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Order Falconiformes

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 turkey vulture  California condor  hooded vulture  Lanner or prairie falcon American kestrel  golden eagle

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Order Gruiformes

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 black crake

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Order Charadriiformes

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 Inca tern

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Order Columbiformes

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Ring-necked dove

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Order Psittaciformes

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 Duyvenbode’s lory  blue-streaked lory green-naped lorikeet  Swainson’s lorikeet  Edward’s lorikeet Weber’s lorikeet  blue-and-gold macaw  green-winged macaw

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Order Cuculiformes

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 Violet plantain-eater

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Order Strigiformes

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 northern saw-whet owl  western screech owl  Eurasian eagle owl  barred owl

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Order Coliiformes

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 speckled mousebird

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Order Coraciiformes

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Laughing kookaburra

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Order Bucerotiformes

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red-billed hornbill

African ground hornbill

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Order Passeriformes

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 violet-backed starling golden-breasted starling  superb starling  red-billed oxpecker  oriole warbler  red bishop cut-throat finch

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Class Mammalia Orders?

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DiprotodontiaProboscideaCingulataScandentiaPrimatesRodentiaLagomorphaInsectivoraChiropteraCarnivoraPerissodactylaArtiodactyla

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Order Diprotodontia

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Matschie’s tree kangaroo

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Order Proboscidea

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 Asian elephant

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Order Cingulata

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 southern three-banded armadillo

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Order Scandentia

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 common tree shrew

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Order Primates

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 red-handed tamarin black howler monkey white-faced saki Allen’s swamp monkey L’Hoest’s monkey  DeBrazza’s monkey Mandrill Colobus white-cheeked gibbon  chimpanzee Sumatran orangutan

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Order Rodentia

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 Beaver Cairo spiny mouse Norway rat dumbo rat naked mole-rat African crested porcupine prehensile-tailed porcupine

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Order Lagomorpha

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 pygmy rabbit old world rabbit (domestic)

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Order Insectivora

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 African pygmy hedgehog

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Order Chiroptera

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 straw-colored fruit bat Rodrigues flying fox Egyptian fruit bat

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Order Carnivora

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 Cheetah caracal ocelot bobcat puma (cougar) African lion Amur leopard Amur tiger dwarf mongoose African wild dog Malayan sun bear American black bear polar bear Steller’s northern sea lion southern sea otter North American river otter Ferret (domestic) American mink Kinkajou Ringtail

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Order Perissodactyla

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 Damara zebra black rhinoceros

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Order Artiodactyla

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 North Sulawesi babirusa Visayan warty pig Guinea hog Hippopotamus reticulated giraffe Speke’s gazelle southern gerenuk Dexter cow Nigerian dwarf goat (domestic)  West African pygmy goat (domestic)  Pygora goat (domestic) Rocky Mountain goat red-flanked duiker