Species

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In biology, a species is a kind of animal or plant. All animals or plants that are the same kind belong to the same species. A dog (Canis lupus [cane-is loo-puss]) is a certain species. So are humans. Species is a word for a certain kind of living thing, like an African elephant. After the species, a more general group is called genus. The African elephant and the Asian elephant are of the same genus. Then there is a family, then an order, like herbivores, which are plant eaters. Next is the class, like the class of mammals. After that is the phylum, as vertebrates, animals with back bones, and last of all is the kingdom, like the animal kingdom. These are ways to classify living things.

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  • Kingdom - Animalia (an-ih-mail-e-a)
  • Phylum - Chordata (core-dat-a)
  • Class - Aves (ah-vase)
  • Order - Gaviiformes (gay-vih-ih-for-mez)
  • Family - Gaviidae (gay-vih-ih-dee)
  • Genus - Gavia (gay-vih-ah)
  • Species Gavia immer (gay-vih-ah imm-err)
  • Common name is Common Loon or Great Northern Diver.

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