Home>>All Animals

Animals by Scientific Class Names

The scientific names of animals are named and classified using the binomial nomenclature system of biology. This system is based on a series of hierarchical structures, from the broadest to the most specific, including kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. The following is the general structure of the scientific names of animals:

ClassnameExample
KingdomAnimaliaHomo sapiens、Canis lupus familiaris
PhylumChordataBalaenoptera musculus、Aves
ClassMammaliaPanthera tigris、whale
OrderPrimatesGorilla gorilla、Macaca mulatta
FamilyHominidaeHomo sapiens、Gorilla
GenusHomoHomo sapiens、Homo neanderthalensis
SpeciesHomo sapiensModern humans only


This classification method helps biologists clearly understand and study the relationship between species, and promotes various biological studies.

Moschiola meminna

Moschiola meminna

Moschiola meminna, White-spotted Chevrotain,Chevrotain,Indian Mouse Deer,Indian Spotted Chevrotain,White-spotted Mousedeer,Tragule d'Inde, Meminna

Features:It is the "treasure of the town" of Singapore Zoo.

Spotted Mouse Deer (scientific name: Moschiola meminna) English White-spotted Chevrotain, Chevrotain, Indian Mouse Deer, Indian Spotted Chevrotain, White-spotted Mousedeer, French Tragule d'Inde, Spanish Meminna, no subspecies.In 2005, Groves and Meijaard revised the name "Moschiola meminna...

Moschiola kathygre

Moschiola kathygre

Moschiola kathygre

Features:It is the smallest of the three species in the same genus.

The yellow-striped mouse deer (scientific name: Moschiola kathygre) has no subspecies. It mainly eats fruits that fall from trees, and other foods include young leaves, shrubs, and young branches.The golden brown body and yellow stripes and markings of the yellow-striped chevrotain visually distingu...

Moschiola indica

Moschiola indica

Moschiola indica,Indian Chevrotain、Indian Mouse Deer、Indian Mousedeer、Indian Spotted Chevrotain

Features:The back is medium to dark brown, the belly is white, and there are four or five light vertical stripes or spots on the back.

Indian Chevrotain (scientific name: Moschiola indica) is also known as Indian Chevrotain, Indian Mouse Deer, Indian Mousedeer, Indian Spotted Chevrotain. It has no subspecies and is the largest member of the genus Moschiola.The Indian spotted chevrotain is a shy and secretive species. Like other for...

Hyemoschus aquaticus

Hyemoschus aquaticus

Hyemoschus aquaticus, Water Chevrotain,Chevrotain Aquatique, Antilope Amizclero Enano de Agua, Hirschferkel

Features:The coat has horizontal white stripes and rows of white spots, and a series of inverted white "V" shapes on the throat.

Water Chevrotain [shuǐ xī lù] (scientific name: Hyemoschus aquaticus) English: Water Chevrotain, French: Chevrotain Aquatique, Spanish: Antilope Amizclero Enano de Agua, German: Hirschferkel, no subspecies, is the largest member of the family Hyemoschus.Water deer females are sedentary, occupying...

Tayassu pecari

Tayassu pecari

Tayassu pecari

Features:White markings around the mouth and jaw

White-lipped Peccary (scientific name: Tayassu pecari) has 5 subspecies.White-lipped Peccary is active both during the day and at night, but is mainly nocturnal. They are a nomadic species, always looking for food and water. Living in groups, their estimated home range is between 60-200 square kilom...

Catagonus wagneri

Catagonus wagneri

Catagonus wagneri,Chacoan Peccary,Tagua

Features:Has many characteristics of a pig

The Chacoan Peccary (Catagonus wagneri) has no subspecies. When it was first discovered, there were only some fossils of the Chacoan Peccary and it was thought to be extinct. It was not until 1975 that they were found alive in the Grand Chaco Plain. The indigenous people are very familiar with them....

Pecari tajacu

Pecari tajacu

Pecari tajacu,Collared Peccary,Collared peccary, collared pig, collared peccary

Features:Poor eyesight, but good hearing, and scent glands to repel enemies

Collared Peccary (scientific name: Pecari tajacu) has 14 subspecies. Peccary, pronounced tuān, means wild boar. Peccary, as the name suggests, is a wild boar in the West. In biological taxonomy, both peccaries and pigs belong to the order Artiodactyla, but they belong to different families.The coll...

Pecari maximus

Pecari maximus

Pecari maximus,Pecari Gigante,Giant wild boar

Features:The peccary is larger, has longer legs, and is smaller in proportion than other members of the genus.

Pecari maximus (scientific name: Pecari maximus) is also known as Pecari Gigante in English. It has no subspecies.The giant peccary is a large forest-dwelling wild boar first discovered in 2000 by Dutch naturalist Marc van Roosmalen in the Rio Aripuan Basin in Brazil. In 2003, he and Lothar Frenz, a...

Sus verrucosus

Sus verrucosus

Sus verrucosus,Javan pig、Sanglier pustule,Javan warty pig, warty wild pig

Features:There are three pairs of warts on the face, one pair in front of the eye sockets, two pairs infraorbital and a larger pair on the jaw.

Javan wild boar (scientific name: Sus verrucosus) foreign name Javan pig, Sanglier pustule, there are 2 subspecies.Javan wild boars are mostly nocturnal, and damage to rice fields and crops occurs almost exclusively at night. These animals are not very social. Females and their young may be found to...

Sus scrofa

Sus scrofa

Sus scrofa, Wild Boar、Eurasian Wild Pig、Ryukyu Islands Wild Pig, Sanglier、Sanglier d'Eurasie,Jabalí, Schwarzwild、Wildschwein, Zerleg Gakhai

Features:The Eurasian wild boar is the most widespread land mammal on Earth.

Eurasian wild boar (scientific name: Sus scrofa) English Wild Boar, Eurasian Wild Pig, Ryukyu Islands Wild Pig, French Sanglier, Sanglier d'Eurasie, Spanish Jabalí, German Schwarzwild, Wildschwein, Mongolian Zerleg Gakhai, is a medium-sized mammal with 20 subspecies.Eurasian wild boar females a...

Sus philippensis

Sus philippensis

Sus philippensis,Philippine Warty Pig,Philippine warthog

Features:

Philippine Warty Pig (scientific name: Sus philippensis) has two subspecies.Philippine Warty Pig is more active at night, but is also active during the day. It appears in pairs during the breeding season, usually forming small groups of 7-12. It is a generally timid and cautious animal that can defe...

Sus oliveri

Sus oliveri

Sus oliveri,Oliver's Warty Pig,Mindoro Warty Pig, Oliver's Warty Pig

Features:Males have a crown of black and straw-colored hair and well-developed warts in front of the eyes.

Mindoro wild boar (scientific name: Sus oliveri) is also known as Oliver's Warty Pig. There is no subspecies.There are few direct records of observations of Mindoro wild boars in the wild, and the habitat preferences of the species remain mostly unclear. There are probably remnant forests and sc...

Sus celebensis

Sus celebensis

Sus celebensis,Sulawesi Warty Pig,Celebes wild boar

Features:Piglets are born with five dark brown and six lighter parallel stripes along the length of their bodies.

Sulawesi Warty Pig (scientific name: Sus celebensis) has three subspecies.The Sulawesi wild boar has a home range of 500-1000 hectares for females and 1000-2000 hectares for males. As mammals, they communicate using some combination of vision, hearing, touch, and emitted chemical scents. They are so...

Sus cebifrons

Sus cebifrons

Sus cebifrons,Visayan warty pig,Visayan warty pig, curly-haired wild boar

Features:There are obvious white stripes on the face

Visayan warty pig (scientific name: Sus cebifrons) is a species endemic to the Visayas Islands in the Philippines.Reports on the activity patterns of Visayan wild pigs in undisturbed areas are rare, as any such activity is deep in remote forest areas with rugged terrain, making even casual observati...

Sus bucculentus

Sus bucculentus

Sus bucculentus,ndo-chinese Warty Pig、Heude's Pig、 Vietnam Warty Pig,Vietnamese wild boar, big-mouthed wild boar

Features:A mysterious species

Indochinese wild boar (scientific name: Sus bucculentus) is also known as Indo-chinese Warty Pig, Heude's Pig, Vietnam Warty Pig, and has no subspecies.The Indochinese wild boar was described in two skulls collected in southern Vietnam in 1892, allegedly from near Ho Chi Minh City in the Dong Na...

Porcula salvania

Porcula salvania

Porcula salvania,Pygmy Hog, Sanglier nain、Sanglier pygmée, Jabalí Enano、Jabalí Pigmeo, Nal Gahori、Takuri Borah, Sano Banel,Pygmy pig, pygmy boar

Features:It is the smallest wild boar known in the world.

Porcula salvania (Pygmy Hog in English, Sanglier nain, Sanglier pygmée in French, Jabalí Enano, Jabalí Pigmeo in Spanish, Nal Gahori, Takuri Borah in Assamese, Sano Banel in Nepali) is the only animal in the Suidae family and the Porcula genus. It is the smallest wild boar.Jizhu is a non-territor...

Sus barbatus

Sus barbatus

Sus barbatus,Bearded Pig,Western Bearded Pig

Features:The head is large and the body is small, with a coarse, thick "beard" of hair on the bridge of the nose and cheeks.

Borneo Bearded Pig (scientific name: Sus barbatus) is also known as Bearded Pig and Western Bearded Pig in foreign languages. It has two subspecies.The Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa) shares the Bornean bearded pig's range in Malaya and Sumatra, but the Eurasian wild boar is smaller and lacks th...

Sus ahoenobarbus

Sus ahoenobarbus

Sus ahoenobarbus,Palawan Bearded Pig

Features:It is the largest wild boar in the Philippines and has the longest "beard" on its lower jaw among its species.

Palawan Bearded Pig (Sus ahoenobarbus) has no subspecies. The Palawan Bearded Pig is similar to the Borneo Bearded Pig and was once a subspecies of the Borneo Bearded Pig, but its size is significantly smaller than the Borneo Bearded Pig distributed in Indonesia. The Palawan Bearded Pig is different...

Potamochoerus larvatus

Potamochoerus larvatus

Potamochoerus larvatus,Bushpig,Jungle Pig

Features:The male has warts on his nose and a long tail with a tuft of coarse hair at the tip.

Masked wild boar (scientific name: Potamochoerus larvatus) is also known as Bushpig in English. There are 6 subspecies.Masked wild boar is a resident animal and vigorously protects its territory. It is mainly active at night. This behavior is related to the ambient temperature, with more diurnal act...

Potamochoerus porcus

Potamochoerus porcus

Potamochoerus porcus,Red River Hog,West African bush pig, tufted pig, red river hog

Features:The smallest and most colorful of all African pigs

Red River Hog (scientific name: Potamochoerus porcus) is also known as Red River Hog, and has no subspecies.Red River Hog is a social animal. Most live in groups of 3-6, and there are groups of up to 11. Large groups of more than 100 animals have been recorded. In most cases, there is a dominant adu...

Hylochoerus meinertzhageni

Hylochoerus meinertzhageni

Hylochoerus meinertzhageni,Forest Hog

Features:Males have bare, swollen pads of skin called calluses near the eyes and scent glands on the cheek pads.

The Forest Hog (Hylochoerus meinertzhageni), also known as the Forest Hog in English, has three subspecies and is the largest pig. The species name "meinertzhageni" of the Forest Hog is derived from the surname of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, a British officer and zoologist. He was the f...