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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.

Picoides tridactylus

Picoides tridactylus

Picoides tridactylus,Eurasian three-toed woodpecker

Features:There is a white vertical stripe behind the eye, the cheek stripe is white, the jaw stripe is black, the tarsometatarsus and toes are dark brown, and there are only 3 toes.

The three-toed woodpecker is called Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker in English. It is a small bird with 8 subspecies.The three-toed woodpecker is a typical forest bird. Except for the breeding season, it often acts alone. In the late breeding period, it also forms a family group. It is active in the...

Dendrocopos leucopterus

Dendrocopos leucopterus

Dendrocopos leucopterus,White-winged Woodpecker

Features:It looks very similar to the Great Spotted Woodpecker, but has white wings.

White-winged Woodpecker is a small bird with no subspecies.White-winged Woodpecker is a resident bird, often acting alone, and in pairs during the breeding season. It mainly feeds on various insects such as longhorn beetle adults and larvae, coleoptera insects, click beetles, ants, bark beetles, jew...

Alcedo hercules

Alcedo hercules

Alcedo hercules,Blyth's Kingfisher

Features:The Great Spotted Kingfisher is very similar to the Common Kingfisher, but is larger in size.

Blyth's Kingfisher is a resident bird. It is timid and often acts alone. It often lives on low branches of trees on the shore or branches extending out of the water. They often fly over the water to look for food. Usually they live alone on branches or rocks near the water, waiting for opportuni...

Alcedo meninting

Alcedo meninting

Fish tiger, water dog, fish dog,Alcedo meninting,Blue-eared Kingfisher

Features:The ear feathers are purple-blue; the throat is light brown; there is a yellow-white spot on each side of the neck

Blue-eared Kingfisher is a small bird with 6 subspecies. There is only the Yunnan subspecies in China, which is distributed in Mengla, Yunnan. There are few records of its ecological biology in China. In 1960, the famous scientist Professor Zheng Zuoxin and others caught one by a river in Mengla.The...

Halcyon smyrnensis

Halcyon smyrnensis

White-breasted fish dog,Halcyon smyrnensis, White-throated kingfisher

Features:Chin, throat, chest and center of chest white

White-throated Kingfisher is a medium-sized bird with 4 subspecies.White-throated Kingfisher often moves alone, often standing on dead branches of trees or stones by the water, and sometimes standing on power lines, often looking at the water for a long time, waiting for prey. It flies in a straight...

Pelargopsis capensis

Pelargopsis capensis

Fish-catching man, stork-billed kingfisher,Pelargopsis capensis,Stork-billed Kingfisher

Features:It is large in size, with a huge, flattened beak, like a stork's beak, red in color, and with nasal grooves on both sides of the beak.

Stork-billed Kingfisher is a medium-sized bird with 13 subspecies.The similar species of Stork-billed Kingfisher, the Blue Kingfisher, is smaller in size and bill, with a black head; the chin, throat, upper chest and collar are white, and the wing coverts are black. When flying, there are white wing...

Merops leschenaulti

Merops leschenaulti

Black-breasted Bee-eater,Merops leschenaulti,Chestnut-headed Bee-eater

Features:The feathers are mainly green and brown, with bright chestnut on the head, nape and upper back.

Chestnut-headed Bee-eater, also known as Chestnut-headed Bee-eater, has 3 subspecies.The chestnut-headed bee-eater migrates to southeastern China in summer, living in hills or woodlands. It mostly flies and hunts in the air, accompanied by a trilling call, and sometimes stands on the top branches of...

Merops viridis

Merops viridis

Red-headed hummingbird,Merops viridis,Blue-throated bee-eater

Features:The top of the head and upper back are chestnut red or chocolate, the chin and throat are blue, and the rest of the lower body and wings are green

Blue-throated bee-eater, also known as Blue-throated bee-eater, has 2 subspecies.Blue-throated bee-eaters often move alone or in small groups, often flying in the sky to find food, and often resting on trees or wires.The migration time of the blue-throated bee-eater is from April to May in spring an...

Merops ornatus

Merops ornatus

Rainbow Bee-eater,Merops ornatus,Rainbow Bee-eater

Features:The throat is reddish brown with a black triangular stripe under the throat

Rainbow Bee-eater, also known as Rainbow Bee-eater, is a medium-sized green bee-eater with no subspecies.Rainbow Bee-eater mainly preys on bees and wasps. Other prey include butterflies, moths, damselflies, dragonflies, beetles and most flying insects. They mostly forage in flight, quickly swooping...

Little gopher

Little gopher

Little gopher, hamsters, gophers

Rodents LC

Features:Smaller

The ground squirrel belongs to the Allactaginae subfamily. There are 3 species in the world, and only 1 in China. The number is relatively rare. It is a desert and semi-desert steppe species. The species status of this species is undisputed, and there are many subspecies. It is still unclear which s...

Allactaga elater

Allactaga elater

Allactaga elater,Jerboa, jumping rabbit, donkey jump, hard jump

Rodents LC

Features:Small in size and good at jumping

The small five-toed jerboa belongs to the subfamily Allactaginae. Jerboas are distributed in deserts and arid areas in North Africa, Arabia and northern Asia. They are one of the few mammals in this extreme environment. The species-level classification status of the small five-toed jerboa is stable...

Allactaga sibirica

Allactaga sibirica

Allactaga sibirica,Mongolian five-toed Jerboa,Five-toed jumping rabbit, jumping rabbit, jumping mouse

Rodents LC

Features:It is the largest species in the jerboa family, with a round head, big eyes, and big ears that can be folded forward to reach the tip of the nose. Its back is gray and its abdomen is pure white.

Five-toed jerboas belong to the Allactaginae subfamily. The species-level classification of five-toed jerboas is stable, and the subspecies differentiation is complex. There are more than 10 species, including 5 in my country, including the current Mongolian five-toed jerboas. But whether they are a...

Castor

Castor

Castor,Beaver, nutria

Rodents LC

Features:The body is obese, with no obvious difference between males and females. The head is short and blunt, the eyes are small, the neck is short, the limbs are short and wide, the forelimbs are short, and the tail is large and flat.

There are only two species of beavers in the world. The other is the American beaver, which is distributed in Canada and Alaska, USA. Beavers are highly adapted to aquatic life and can move underwater for a long time. They have the habit of building dams with branches and trunks and nesting next to...

Dryomys nitedula

Dryomys nitedula

Dryomys nitedula,Dormouse,Dyromys milleri,Mus nitedula Pallas,Eliomys angelus

Rodents LC

Features:The body is medium in size, with a dirty grey tail, slightly darker than the back of the body. The tip of the tail is slightly white, the feet are white, and the eye sockets are black.

There are 9 genera and 28 species of forest dormouse in the world. They belong to 3 subfamilies. There are 2 genera and 2 species in China, belonging to the forest dormouse subfamily (Leithiinae). Dormouse rodents are a group of very special animals. Most of them are like small squirrels, with soft...

Aeretes melanopterus

Aeretes melanopterus

Aeretes melanopterus,North Chinese flying squirrel,Black-winged flying squirrel

Rodents LC

Features:A medium-sized flying squirrel with a flat, rounded tail that is almost as long as or longer than its body.

Grooved-toothed flying squirrels like to build nests in tree holes of tall trees. The nests are built in dead tree holes, with the hole openings ranging from 5 to 10 meters from the ground. The hole openings are small, about 10 cm, and the hole depth is about 50 cm. The nests are made of birch bark...

Pteromys volans

Pteromys volans

Pteromys volans,Siberian Flying Squirrel,Flying squirrel, flying squirrel, flying tiger, small flying squirrel

Rodents LC

Features:It is small and very flexible, with short and thick limbs, a flat tail, and two colors of fur in winter and summer: brown-gray in summer and yellow-gray in winter.

Flying squirrels do not hibernate. They are nocturnal and are active after dusk, but can occasionally be seen during the day. When disturbed during the day, they slowly crawl to the entrance of their caves. Some of them jump out and glide downwards. After landing, they quickly climb up the nearest t...

Petaurista xanthotis

Petaurista xanthotis

Petaurista xanthotis , Highland Flying Squirrel, Yellow-eared Flying Squirrel

Rodents LC

Features:The head is short and round, the tail is fluffy, thick and rudder-shaped, and its length is generally longer than the body.

Gray flying squirrels are nocturnal and active at dawn and dusk. They live in subalpine coniferous forests or mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests at an altitude of about 3,000 meters. They have strong gliding ability and usually build nests in tree holes of tall trees or rock holes higher than...

Merops philippinus

Merops philippinus

Red-throated Bee-eater,Merops philippinus,Blue-tailed Bee-eater

Features:The throat is chestnut red, the eye stripes are black, the wings and back are green, and the tail is blue

Blue-tailed Bee-eater, no subspecies.Blue-tailed Bee-eater is a resident bird in southwestern Yunnan and Hainan Island, China, and a summer migratory bird in other areas. It migrates in April-May and leaves in September-October.Chestnut-throated bee-eaters usually move in groups of several to dozens...

Merops persicus

Merops persicus

Merops persicus,Blue-cheeked Bee-eater,Guêpier de Perse,القارية زرقاء الخدين

Features:The flying posture is graceful, like a swallow

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, also known as Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, has two subspecies.At dusk or after the rain, large groups of blue-cheeked bee-eaters will fly in the air to chase flying insects, especially when there are breeding termites flying around. The sound of the upper and lower jaws beating ca...

Merops orientalis

Merops orientalis

Merops orientalis,Green Bee-eater

Features:The throat is green, the forehead, top of the head and upper back are rusty red, and the rest of the upper body is bright green

Green Bee-eater, also known as Green Bee-eater in English, is a small bird with 9 subspecies.The green-throated bee-eater is a resident bird that moves in small groups. It is often seen perching on flying insects and suddenly rushing into the air to bite them. After catching the flying insects, it w...

Nyctyornis athertoni

Nyctyornis athertoni

Blue-bearded night bee-eater,Nyctyornis athertoni,Blue-bearded Bee-eater

Features:When perched, it constantly raises its tail like an angler

Blue-bearded Bee-eater is a green forest-dwelling bee-eater with two subspecies.Blue-bearded Bee-eaters live in pairs and seem to be inactive for most of the day. They live high up in the trees, in the shade of leaves, or in the sun near the canopy. They stand next to the inflorescences and will pec...