Lists of animals
Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development. Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described—of which around 1 million are insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million in total. Animals range in size from 8.5 millionths of a metre to 33.6 metres (110 ft) long and have complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs. The study of animals is called zoology.
Animals may be listed or indexed by many criteria, including taxonomy, status as endangered species, their geographical location, and their portrayal and/or naming in human culture.
By common name
- List of animal names (male, female, young, and group)
- List of English animal nouns
By aspect
By eating behaviour
- List of herbivorous animals
- List of omnivores
- List of carnivores
By endangered status
- IUCN Red List endangered species (Animalia)
- United States Fish and Wildlife Service list of endangered species
By extinction
List of extinct animals
- List of extinct birds
- List of extinct mammals
- List of extinct butterflies
By individual (real or fictional)
Real
- List of animals with fraudulent diplomas
- List of cats
- List of giant squids
- List of historical elephants
- List of historical horses
- List of individual apes
- List of individual bears
- List of individual birds
- List of individual bovines
- List of individual cetaceans
- List of individual dogs
- List of oldest dogs
- List of individual monkeys
- List of individual pigs
- List of wealthiest animals
Fictional
- List of fictional bears
- List of fictional birds
- List of fictional cats
- List of fictional pachyderms
- List of fictional pigs
By taxonomical classification
Phyla
The animal Kingdom contains some 35 extant phyla.
Basal animals are delineated according to the following cladogram:
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Animals: Porifera, Diploblasts
Diploblasts: Ctenophora, ParaHoxozoa
ParaHoxozoa: Placozoa, Cnidaria, Bilateria/Triploblast
Bilateria: Xenacoelomorpha, Nephrozoa
Nephrozoa: Protostomes, Deuterostomes
- Phylum Proarticulata † Disputed if this is in or out of Bilateria and Phylum Xenacoelomorpha is basal
Deuterostomia
- Phylum Chordata
- Phylum Saccorhytida †
- Ambulacraria (unranked)
- Phylum Hemichordata
- Phylum Echinodermata
- Phylum Cambroernida †
Ecdysozoa
- Cycloneuralia (unranked)
- Scalidophora (unranked)
- Phylum Kinorhyncha
- Phylum Loricifera
- Phylum Priapulida
- Nematoida (unranked)
- Phylum Nematoda
- Phylum Nematomorpha
- Scalidophora (unranked)
- Panarthropoda (unranked)
- Phylum Onychophora
- Tactopoda (unranked)
- Phylum Tardigrada
- Phylum Arthropoda
Spiralia
- Gnathifera
- Phylum Gnathostomulida
- Phylum Rotifera
- Mesozoa
- Phylum Dicyemida
- Phylum Orthonectida
- Rouphozoa
- Phylum Gastrotricha
- Phylum Platyhelminthes
- Lophotrochozoa
- Phylum Hyolitha †
- Phylum Annelida
- Phylum Brachiopoda
- Phylum Bryozoa
- Phylum Cycliophora
- Phylum Entoprocta
- Phylum Mollusca
- Phylum Nemertea
- Phylum Phoronida
Reptiles
- List of reptiles
- List of ichthyosaur genera
- List of pterosaur genera
- List of plesiosaur genera
- List of dinosaur genera
- List of snakes
- List of snake genera
- List of boine species and subspecies
- List of erycine species and subspecies
- List of pythonid species and subspecies
- List of tropidophiid species and subspecies
- List of uropeltid species and subspecies
- List of crotaline species and subspecies
- List of viperine species and subspecies
- List of anomalepidid species and subspecies
- List of leptotyphlopid species and subspecies
- List of typhlopid species and subspecies
- List of Testudines families (tortoises, turtles and terrapins)
Spiders
- List of families of spiders
Echinoderms
- List of echinodermata orders
See also
- Outline of zoology – study of animals
- Lists of plants