Animals being 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 domestication
By eating behaviour
By endangered status
By extinction
By region
By individual (real or fictional)
- List of individual apes
- List of fictional bears
- List of individual bears
- List of fictional birds
- List of individual birds
- List of individual bovines
- List of cats
- List of fictional cats
- List of individual cetaceans
- List of individual dogs
- List of oldest dogs
- List of historical elephants
- List of historical horses
- List of leading Thoroughbred racehorses
- List of individual monkeys
- List of fictional pachyderms
- List of individual pigs
- List of fictional pigs
- List of giant pandas
- List of giant squids
- List of wealthiest animals
- List of animals with fraudulent diplomas
By taxonomical classification
Phyla
The animal Kingdom contains some 35 extant phyla.
Basal animals are according to the following cladogram:
| Choanozoa (950) | |
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
- Phylum Chordata
- Phylum Saccorhytida †
- Ambulacraria (unranked)
- Phylum Hemichordata
- Phylum Echinodermata
- Phylum Cambroernida †
- 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
- 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
- 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)
See also
- Outline of zoology – study of animals
- Lists of plants
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