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Classification of Animals.: Biodiversity

This document provides a classification of animals based on whether they have backbones (vertebrates) or not (invertebrates). It notes that invertebrates come in many different forms and sizes, while vertebrates have an internal skeleton and include fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The document then provides brief descriptions of characteristics and examples for each of these vertebrate groups, noting differences in things like egg-laying versus live birth.

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Classification of Animals.: Biodiversity

This document provides a classification of animals based on whether they have backbones (vertebrates) or not (invertebrates). It notes that invertebrates come in many different forms and sizes, while vertebrates have an internal skeleton and include fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The document then provides brief descriptions of characteristics and examples for each of these vertebrate groups, noting differences in things like egg-laying versus live birth.

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BIODIVERSITY

Classification of Animals.
Iffah Nurain Binti Zulkarnain 2 Taqwa 2012

Animals
Vertebrates
( With backbones )

Invertebrates
( Without backbones )

Amphibians

Birds

Reptiles

Fish

Mammals

INVERTEBRATES
Animal which does not have a backbone. Invertebrates form a very large group of animals. Some are microscopic in size. Some live in water, and some on land. Some have many legs and some do not have any. Some have their body covered with a shell.

VERTEBRATES
Animals with an internal skeleton made of bone. Example : Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, primates, rodents and marsupials. Although vertebrates represent only a very small percentage of all animals, their size and mobility often allow them to dominate their environment.

Fifty thousand species might seem like a lot. Compared to the invertebrates, there are not that many species of vertebrates. The reason is that vertebrates are usually larger than invertebrates. They need more space. Another reason is that, even though they are more advanced, there are many limitations on the environments that are available to them. Vertebrates are smart. Some of them are very smart. We mean you. Most vertebrates have very advanced nervous systems. While a goldfish might not compare to your intelligence, when you compare a goldfish to a sea anemone, a goldfish is like Einstein. Octopi are probably the smartest invertebrates and may equal or be smarter than some vertebrates. Octopi are the exception in the invertebrate category.

Mammals

Amphibians lay thousands and sometimes millions of small, soft eggs, and they lay them in the water! The eggs are jelly-like. The process amphibians go through is called "metamorphosis". Baby amphibian looks completely different than the adult amphibians!

Examples :

FISH

Fish also lay many many eggs sometimes millions of tiny eggs! They are also laid in the water.

Example:

BIRDS

Birds also lay eggs, with a very hard outer shell. Birds generally lay 1 to 17 eggs at a time.

Example :

Mammals

Most baby mammals grow inside their mother until they are born. This is something that makes mammals different, because most other kinds of animals do something else. Another important characteristic is that mammal babies drink milk from their mothers until they are old enough to eat other food.

Example :

Reptiles

Reptiles usually lay eggs, and the babies then grow inside the egg until they are ready to come out. Sometimes reptiles will give birth like mammals, without eggs.

Example:

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