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Animal Classification Charts

The document describes the animal kingdom and classifies animals into vertebrates and invertebrates. Vertebrates are divided into five classes - amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, and reptiles. Invertebrates are divided into six phyla - annelids, arthropods, cnidarians, echinoderms, mollusks, and poriferans. Arthropods are further classified into five classes.

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Animal Classification Charts

The document describes the animal kingdom and classifies animals into vertebrates and invertebrates. Vertebrates are divided into five classes - amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, and reptiles. Invertebrates are divided into six phyla - annelids, arthropods, cnidarians, echinoderms, mollusks, and poriferans. Arthropods are further classified into five classes.

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ANIMAL KINGDOM

Vertebrates Invertebrates
(with backbone) (without backbone)

amphibian fish reptile


sponge arthropod worm

bird mammal mollusk


stinging spiny-
cell skinned

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Vertebrate Phylum
(with backbone)

Amphibian Bird Fish Mammal Reptile

• cold-blooded • warm-blooded • cold-blooded • warm-blooded • cold-blooded


• breathe with • breathe with • have hair • breathe with
• lay eggs
lungs and gills • have feathers
gills • produce milk lungs
• smooth, moist • lay eggs for young • lay eggs
& wings
skin (no scales) • have fins • give live birth • dry scaly skin
• two legs
• lay eggs • have hair or fur
• breathe with
• breathe with
lungs
• have bills or
lungs
beaks

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Invertebrate Phylum
(without backbone)

Annelid Arthropod Cnidaria Echinoderm Mollusk Porifera


worms jointed legs stinging cells spiny-skinned soft bodied sponges

• bodies in 5 parts • soft-bodied with • no body


• two body • jointed legs • tentacles with
external or openings
openings stinging cells • covered in
• more than one internal shells • no muscles,
• simple nervous body section • one body spikes or spines
• have a foot or nerves or
• system opening • external
• exoskeleton tentacles organs
• live in water skeleton made
• most have • live in water
of lime
shells

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Arthropod Class

Chelicerates Crustaceans Insects Myriapods Trilobites


(claw mouth) (hard shelled) (segmented) (many feet) (three lobed)
extinct

• several pairs of • three body parts


• head and long,
jointed legs • six legs
• feeding pincers repeating trunk • three lateral body
• hard protective • exoskeleton parts
• no antennae • two antennae
outer shell
• two antennae • many legs • segmented thorax
• two pairs of
• tail section
antennae
• eyes at the ends
of stalks

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kingdom: animal
phylum: chordate (animals with backbones)
class: bird (egg-layers with feathers)
order: passerine (songbirds)
family: thick-beaked birds such as finches
genus: Passer
species: domesticus

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