Classifying Animals

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  • Classifying Animals
    • Phylum Vertebrates
      • Fish
        • vertebrates with scaly skin
        • have gills
        • have fins
        • e.g tiger shark
      • Amphibians
        • vertebrates with moist, scale-less skin
        • eggs laid in water, larva (tadpole) lives in water
        • adult often lives on land
        • larva has gills, adult has lungs
        • e.g. frog
      • Reptiles
        • vertebrates with scaly skin
        • e.g. snake
        • lay eggs with rubber shells
      • Birds
        • vertebrates with feathers
        • forelimbs have become wings
        • lay eggs with hard shells
        • endothermic
        • have a beak
        • heart has four chambers
        • e.g. sparrow
      • Mammals
        • vertebrates with hair
        • have a placenta
        • young feed on milk from mammary glands
        • endothermic
        • have a diaphragm
        • heart has four chambers
        • have different types of teeth (incisors, canines, premolars and molars)
        • e.g. leopard
    • Phylum Arthropods
      • Insects
        • arthropods with three pairs of jointed legs
        • two pairs of wings
        • breathe through tracheae
        • body divided into head, thorax and abdomen
        • e.g. locust
      • Crustaceans
        • arthropods with more than four pairs of jointed legs
        • not millipedes or centipedes
        • breathe through gills
        • e.g. crab
      • Arachnids
        • arthropods with four pairs of jointed legs
        • breathe through gills called book lungs
        • e.g. spider
      • Myriapods
        • body consists of many segments
        • each segment has jointed legs
        • e.g. centipede

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