Taxonomic rank

In biology, the scientific process of classifying organisms is taxonomy. Taxonomy relies on common characteristics between groups to classify them into an area in the taxonomic hierarchy. Both alligators and crocodiles share the same order, a taxonomic rank that groups together families sharing a similar nature or character, of crocodilia which includes mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic reptiles. The crocodilia order also includes caimans, gharials, and false…

It starts with the largest number of animals in the top rank, the kingdom, and then moves sequentially down to smaller and smaller subsets. These include the subkingdom, phylum, superclass, class, subclass, order, suborder, and family. Notes are included about new classification expansions and inclusions of additional ranks where appropriate. The additional ranks are…

stinging tentacles around the edge and considered as invertebrate species, meaning that they do not have backbones. The kingdom they are classified to is animalia(eukaryotic and multicellular organism) and belongs to phylum cnidaria, which is a taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class. Theoretically, members of Cnidaria have life cycles that alternate between asexual polyps (the body as a vase shaped form), and sexual, free-swimming forms called medusae (singular medusa; the body in a…

When one contemplates about a author that makes the reader analyze and investigate each individual word and action of the characters, William Shakespeare, George Orwell and Stephen King come to mind. However, one that makes the reader feel as if they were present in the character situation or time period is, Anton Chekhov. This brilliant author proposed many ideas about the Russian culture and their beliefs; an example can be seen as The Bet. From this story, one can investigate the question,…

commonly used scheme, but I feel it reflects the anatomy quite well. The scheme in Fleagle [Fleagle, 1999] is the one more generally encountered and I will periodically comment on the differences. Before we go on, a note on typography1. The way that taxonomic terms are written in important (translation: you will lose marks if you get it wrong!). Species names are written in italics with the name of the genus starting with a capital (uppercase) letter and the name of the species starting with a…

For other uses, see Parrot (disambiguation). Scarlet Macaws. One is eating using a foot to hold a walnut, while the shell is broken with its beak.Parrots are birds of the roughly 350 species in 85 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most warm and tropical regions. Also known as psittacines (pronounced /?s?t?sa?nz/),[1][2] they are usually grouped into two families: the Psittacidae (true parrots) and the Cacatuidae (cockatoos). Parrots have a pan-tropical distribution with…