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What animals are in class Actinopterygii?

Albacore tuna fish, Thunnus alalunga underwater in the cean
Albacore Tuna

The albacore is a very fast swimmer

An Alligator gar, Atractosteus spatula, while swimming in a huge aquarium
Alligator Gar

The alligator gar has toxic eggs to protect against predators

School of Swimming Anchovies
Anchovies

November 12th is celebrated as National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day

  • Albacore Tuna
  • Alligator Gar
  • Anchovies
  • Angelfish
  • Arapaima
  • Barb
  • Barracuda
  • Barramundi Fish
  • Beluga Sturgeon
  • Bichir
  • Black Marlin
  • Blobfish
  • Bluefin Tuna
  • Bonito Fish
  • Bowfin
  • Butterfly Fish
  • Carp
  • Chinese Paddlefish
  • Cichlid
  • Clownfish
  • Codfish
  • Discus
  • Dragonfish
  • Drum Fish
  • Eel
  • Electric Eel
  • Fangtooth
  • Florida Gar
  • Flounder
  • Fluke Fish (summer flounder)
  • Gar
  • Guppy
  • Herring
  • Lionfish
  • Loach
  • Longnose Gar
  • Milkfish
  • Molly
  • Monkfish
  • Moray Eel
  • Paddlefish
  • Pike Fish
  • Piranha
  • Pufferfish
  • Rockfish
  • Salmon
  • Sardines
  • Scorpion Fish
  • Sea Dragon
  • Seahorse
  • Siamese Fighting Fish
  • Silver Dollar
  • Skipjack Tuna
  • Spotted Gar
  • Sturgeon
  • Sucker Fish
  • Swai Fish
  • Tang
  • Tarpon
  • Tetra
  • Toadfish
  • Tuna
  • Walleye Fish
  • Wolf Eel
  • Wolffish
  • Wrasse
  • X-Ray Tetra
  • Yellowfin Tuna

What animals are in class Amphibia?

Male African giant bullfrog (Pyxicephalus adspersus) in shallow water, South Africa
African Bullfrog

The African bullfrog is one of only three species of frog that have “teeth.”

African Clawed Frog

A particularly ferocious amphibian!

African Tree Toad on a leaf
African Tree Toad

Found in tropical moist lowland forests!

  • African Bullfrog
  • African Clawed Frog
  • African Tree Toad
  • Axolotl
  • Bullfrog
  • Burrowing Frog
  • Common Frog
  • Common Toad
  • Darwin’s Frog
  • Desert Rain Frog
  • Edible Frog
  • Fire-Bellied Toad
  • Frog
  • Glass Frog
  • Goliath Frog
  • Gray Tree Frog
  • Green Frog
  • Green Tree Frog
  • Horned Frog
  • Leopard Frog
  • Marine Toad
  • Marsh Frog
  • Monte Iberia Eleuth
  • Newt
  • Olm
  • Poison Dart Frog
  • Pool Frog
  • Salamander
  • Spadefoot Toad
  • Striped Rocket Frog
  • Tiger Salamander
  • Tree Frog
  • Wyoming Toad

What animals are in class Anthozoa?

Coral

Thought to be around 70,000 different species!

  • Coral

What animals are in class Arachnida?

Female black widow spider on branch
Black Widow Spider

They typically prey on insects!

Camel Spider

Fast, carnivorous arachnid with a painful bite.

Red Knee Tarantula

Inhabits the Pacific Mountains of Mexico!

  • Black Widow Spider
  • Camel Spider
  • Red Knee Tarantula
  • Scorpion
  • Wolf Spider

What animals are in class Asteroidea?

Starfish on sand
Starfish

Has 2 stomachs to aid digestion!

  • Starfish

What animals are in class Aves?

Adelie Penguins jump from iceberg in Antarcdtica
Adelie Penguin

Eats up to 2kg of food per day!

African Penguin

The only penguin species in Africa!

Black browed albatross, North Island, New Zealand.
Albatross

The largest wingspan of any bird in the world!

  • Adelie Penguin
  • African Penguin
  • Albatross
  • Avocet
  • Barn Owl
  • Bird
  • Birds Of Paradise
  • Blue Jay
  • Booby
  • Budgerigar
  • Cassowary
  • Chicken
  • Chinstrap Penguin
  • Cockatoo
  • Common Buzzard
  • Common Loon
  • Cooper’s Hawk
  • Crane
  • Crested Penguin
  • Dodo
  • Duck
  • Eagle
  • Emperor Penguin
  • Emu
  • Falcon
  • Flamingo
  • Frigatebird
  • Galapagos Penguin
  • Gentoo Penguin
  • Golden Masked Owl
  • Golden Oriole
  • Goose
  • Gouldian Finch
  • Green Bee-Eater
  • Grouse
  • Guinea Fowl
  • Harpy Eagle
  • Hawaiian Crow
  • Heron
  • Hoopoe
  • Hornbill
  • House Finch
  • Humboldt Penguin
  • Hummingbird
  • Ibis
  • Kakapo
  • Keel-Billed Toucan
  • King Penguin
  • Kingfisher
  • Kiwi
  • Little Penguin
  • Long-Eared Owl
  • Macaroni Penguin
  • Macaw
  • Magellanic Penguin
  • Magpie
  • Moorhen
  • Mourning Dove
  • Nightingale
  • Ostrich
  • Parrot
  • Peacock
  • Pelican
  • Penguin
  • Peregrine Falcon
  • Pheasant
  • Pigeon
  • Pileated Woodpecker
  • Puffin
  • Purple Finch
  • Quail
  • Quetzal
  • Red Finch
  • Robin
  • Rockhopper Penguin
  • Roseate Spoonbill
  • Royal Penguin
  • Snowy Owl
  • Sparrow
  • Spixs Macaw
  • Swan
  • Tawny Owl
  • Toucan
  • Tropicbird
  • Turkey
  • Uguisu
  • Umbrellabird
  • Vulture
  • Wandering Albatross
  • Whooping Crane
  • Woodpecker
  • Yellow-Eyed Penguin

What animals are in class Bivalvia?

mantle of a giant clam, Tridacna, growing on a coral reef
Giant Clam

Can reach nearly 4ft in length!

Oyster (Ostreidae) - colorful thorny oyster
Oyster

Can process up to 10 litres of water an hour!

  • Giant Clam
  • Oyster

What animals are in class Cephalopoda?

Colossal Squid preserved in Wellington's Te Papa Museum
Colossal Squid

Can survive eating a single fish for months

Cuttlefish
Cuttlefish

Found throughout the world's oceans!

Octopus

There are around 300 different species!

  • Colossal Squid
  • Cuttlefish
  • Octopus
  • Squid
  • Vampire Squid

What animals are in class Chilopoda?

Giant Tree centipede close-up
Centipede

There are about 3,000 documented species!

  • Centipede

What animals are in class Chondrichthyes?

Basking shark
Basking Shark

The second biggest fish in the world!

Bull Shark

Unpredictable and aggressive temperament!

Rabbit fish (Chimaera monstrosa) in Trondheimfjord
Chimaera

Also called ghost shark

  • Basking Shark
  • Bull Shark
  • Chimaera
  • Frilled Shark
  • Goblin Shark
  • Great White Shark
  • Grey Reef Shark
  • Hammerhead Shark
  • Horn Shark
  • Manta Ray
  • Megalodon
  • Nurse Shark
  • Sawfish
  • Shark
  • Skate Fish
  • Spiny Dogfish
  • Stingray
  • Tiger Shark
  • Whale Shark
  • Zebra Shark

What animals are in class Crustacea?

Barnacle

Closely related to crabs and lobsters!

  • Barnacle

What animals are in class Demospongiae?

Sponge in the Caribbean sea around Bonaire.
Sponge

There are more than 9,000 known species!

  • Sponge

What animals are in class Diplopoda?

big millipede many leg rolling body walking on concrete floor.
Millipede

Some species have a poisonous bite!

  • Millipede

What animals are in class Echinoidea?

Sea Urchin
Sea Urchin

Can live for up to 200 years!

  • Sea Urchin

What animals are in class Gastropoda?

Giant African Land Snail

The biggest snail species on land!

Blue Sea Slug on a rock
Sea Slug

All sea slugs have both male and female sex organs

Snail

There are nearly 1,000 different species!

  • Giant African Land Snail
  • Sea Slug
  • Snail

What animals are in class Hydrozoa?

Immortal Jellyfish Isolated
Immortal Jellyfish

Excellent hitchhiker on long-trip cargo ships

  • Immortal Jellyfish

What animals are in class Hyperoartia?

Close up of open sucking mouth of sea lamprey with teeth
Lamprey

Not related to the eel

  • Lamprey

What animals are in class Insecta?

Ant

First evolved 100 million years ago!

Asian Giant Hornet

The largest wasp in the world!

Beetle

There are more than 350,000 different species

  • Ant
  • Asian Giant Hornet
  • Beetle
  • Bumblebee
  • Butterfly
  • Caterpillar
  • Cockroach
  • Desert Locust
  • Dragonfly
  • Earwig
  • Fly
  • Glow Worm
  • Grasshopper
  • Hercules Beetle
  • Honey Bee
  • Insects
  • Ladybug
  • Mayfly
  • Monarch Butterfly
  • Moth
  • Pond Skater
  • Purple Emperor Butterfly
  • Puss Moth
  • Stag Beetle
  • Stick Insect
  • Termite
  • Wasp

What animals are in class Malacostraca?

Crab

There are 93 different crab groups

Hermit Crab

There are over 500 different species!

Horseshoe crab on sand
Horseshoe Crab

Changed little in over 500 million years!

  • Crab
  • Hermit Crab
  • Horseshoe Crab
  • King Crab
  • Krill

What animals are in class Mammalia?

Aardvark

Can move 2ft of soil in just 15 seconds!

Abyssinian

The oldest breed of cat in the world!

Affenpinscher playing in a field
Affenpinscher

First bred in 17th century Germany!

  • Aardvark
  • Abyssinian
  • Affenpinscher
  • Afghan Hound
  • African Bush Elephant
  • African Civet
  • African Forest Elephant
  • African Palm Civet
  • African Wild Dog
  • Ainu
  • Airedale Terrier
  • Akbash
  • Akita
  • Alaskan Malamute
  • Alpaca
  • Alpine Dachsbracke
  • Amazon River Dolphin (Pink Dolphin)
  • American Alsatian
  • American Bulldog
  • American Cocker Spaniel
  • American Coonhound
  • American Eskimo Dog
  • American Foxhound
  • American Pit Bull Terrier
  • American Staffordshire Terrier
  • American Water Spaniel
  • Amur Leopard
  • Anatolian Shepherd Dog
  • Anteater
  • Antelope
  • Appenzeller Dog
  • Arctic Fox
  • Arctic Hare
  • Arctic Wolf
  • Armadillo
  • Asian Elephant
  • Asian Palm Civet
  • Asiatic Black Bear
  • Aurochs
  • Australian Cattle Dog
  • Australian Kelpie Dog
  • Australian Mist
  • Australian Shepherd
  • Australian Terrier
  • Aye Aye
  • Baboon
  • Bactrian Camel
  • Badger
  • Baiji
  • Balinese
  • Banded Palm Civet
  • Bandicoot
  • Basenji Dog
  • Basset Fauve de Bretagne
  • Basset Hound
  • Bat
  • Bavarian Mountain Hound
  • Beagle
  • Bear
  • Bearded Collie
  • Beaver
  • Bedlington Terrier
  • Bengal Tiger
  • Bernese Mountain Dog
  • Bichon Frise
  • Biewer Terrier
  • Binturong
  • Birman
  • Bison
  • Black Rhinoceros
  • Black Russian Terrier
  • Bloodhound
  • Blue Lacy Dog
  • Blue Whale
  • Bluetick Coonhound
  • Bobcat
  • Bolognese Dog
  • Bombay
  • Bongo
  • Bonobo
  • Border Collie
  • Border Terrier
  • Bornean Orang-utan
  • Borneo Elephant
  • Boston Terrier
  • Bottlenose Dolphin
  • Bowhead Whale
  • Boxer Dog
  • Boykin Spaniel
  • Brazilian Terrier
  • British Timber
  • Brown Bear
  • Buffalo
  • Bull Terrier
  • Bulldog
  • Bullmastiff
  • Burmese
  • Cairn Terrier
  • Camel
  • Canaan Dog
  • Canadian Eskimo Dog
  • Capybara
  • Caracal
  • Carolina Dog
  • Cat
  • Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
  • Cesky Fousek
  • Chamois
  • Cheetah
  • Chesapeake Bay Retriever
  • Chihuahua
  • Chimpanzee
  • Chinchilla
  • Chinese Crested Dog
  • Chinook
  • Chipmunk
  • Chow Chow
  • Clouded Leopard
  • Clumber Spaniel
  • Coati
  • Collared Peccary
  • Collie
  • Cotton-top Tamarin
  • Cougar
  • Cow
  • Coyote
  • Crab-Eating Macaque
  • Cross River Gorilla
  • Curly Coated Retriever
  • Cuscus
  • Dachshund
  • Dalmatian
  • Deer
  • Deutsche Bracke
  • Dhole
  • Dingo
  • Doberman Pinscher
  • Dog
  • Dogo Argentino
  • Dogue De Bordeaux
  • Dolphin
  • Donkey
  • Dormouse
  • Drever
  • Dugong
  • Dunker
  • Dusky Dolphin
  • Eastern Gorilla
  • Eastern Lowland Gorilla
  • Echidna
  • Egyptian Mau
  • Elephant
  • Elephant Seal
  • Elephant Shrew
  • Emperor Tamarin
  • English Cocker Spaniel
  • English Shepherd
  • English Springer Spaniel
  • Entlebucher Mountain Dog
  • Epagneul Pont Audemer
  • Ermine
  • Eskimo Dog
  • Estrela Mountain Dog
  • False Killer Whale
  • Fennec Fox
  • Ferret
  • Field Spaniel
  • Fin Whale
  • Finnish Spitz
  • Fishing Cat
  • Flat-Coated Retriever
  • Flying Squirrel
  • Fossa
  • Fox
  • Fox Terrier
  • French Bulldog
  • Fur Seal
  • Geoffroys Tamarin
  • Gerbil
  • German Pinscher
  • German Shepherd Guide
  • Giant Panda Bear
  • Giant Schnauzer
  • Gibbon
  • Giraffe
  • Goat
  • Golden Lion Tamarin
  • Golden Retriever
  • Golden-Crowned Flying Fox
  • Gopher
  • Gorilla
  • Great Dane
  • Great Pyrenees
  • Greater Swiss Mountain Dog
  • Greenland Dog
  • Grey Mouse Lemur
  • Grey Seal
  • Greyhound
  • Grizzly Bear
  • Guinea Pig
  • Hamster
  • Hare
  • Harrier
  • Havanese
  • Hedgehog
  • Highland Cattle
  • Himalayan
  • Hippopotamus
  • Honey Badger
  • Horse
  • Howler Monkey
  • Human
  • Humpback Whale
  • Hyena
  • Ibizan Hound
  • Impala
  • Indian Elephant
  • Indian Palm Squirrel
  • Indian Rhinoceros
  • Indochinese Tiger
  • Indri
  • Irish Setter
  • Irish WolfHound
  • Italian Greyhound
  • Jack Russell
  • Jackal
  • Jaguar
  • Japanese Chin
  • Japanese Macaque
  • Javan Rhinoceros
  • Javanese
  • Jerboa
  • Kangaroo
  • Keeshond
  • Killer Whale
  • Kinkajou
  • Koala
  • Kudu
  • Labradoodle
  • Labrador Retriever
  • Lemming
  • Lemur
  • Leopard
  • Leopard Cat
  • Leopard Seal
  • Liger
  • Lion
  • Llama
  • Lynx
  • Maine Coon
  • Malayan Civet
  • Malayan Tiger
  • Maltese
  • Manatee
  • Mandrill
  • Maned Wolf
  • Markhor
  • Marmot
  • Masked Palm Civet
  • Mastiff
  • Meerkat
  • Mexican Free-Tailed Bat
  • Mink
  • Minke Whale
  • Mole
  • Mongoose
  • Mongrel
  • Monkey
  • Moose
  • Mountain Gorilla
  • Mountain Lion
  • Mouse
  • Mule
  • Muskrat
  • Narwhal
  • Neanderthal
  • Neapolitan Mastiff
  • Newfoundland
  • Norfolk Terrier
  • North American Black Bear
  • Northern Inuit Dog
  • Norwegian Forest
  • Numbat
  • Ocelot
  • Okapi
  • Old English Sheepdog
  • Opossum
  • Orang-utan
  • Otter
  • Pademelon
  • Panther
  • Patas Monkey
  • Pekingese
  • Pere Davids Deer
  • Persian
  • Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen
  • Pied Tamarin
  • Pig
  • Pika
  • Pink Fairy Armadillo
  • Platypus
  • Pointer
  • Polar Bear
  • Poodle
  • Porcupine
  • Porpoise
  • Possum
  • Proboscis Monkey
  • Pug
  • Puma
  • Pygmy Hippopotamus
  • Pygmy Marmoset
  • Quokka
  • Quoll
  • Rabbit
  • Raccoon
  • Raccoon Dog
  • Ragdoll
  • Rat
  • Red Fox
  • Red Panda
  • Red Wolf
  • Red-handed Tamarin
  • Reindeer
  • Rhinoceros
  • Rock Hyrax
  • Rottweiler
  • Russian Blue
  • Saarloos Wolfdog
  • Saber-Toothed Tiger
  • Sable
  • Saiga
  • Saint Bernard
  • Samoyed
  • Saola
  • Scimitar-horned Oryx
  • Sea Lion
  • Sea Otter
  • Seal
  • Serval
  • Sheep
  • Shiba Inu
  • Shih Tzu
  • Siamese
  • Siberian
  • Siberian Husky
  • Siberian Tiger
  • Skunk
  • Sloth
  • Snowshoe
  • Snowshoe Hare
  • Somali
  • South China Tiger
  • Spectacled Bear
  • Sperm Whale
  • Spider Monkey
  • Squirrel
  • Squirrel Monkey
  • Sri Lankan Elephant
  • Staffordshire Bull Terrier
  • Steller’s Sea Cow
  • Stoat
  • Sugar Glider
  • Sumatran Elephant
  • Sumatran Orang-utan
  • Sumatran Rhinoceros
  • Sumatran Tiger
  • Sun Bear
  • Swedish Vallhund
  • Tamaskan
  • Tapanuli Orang-utan
  • Tapir
  • Tarsier
  • Tasmanian Devil
  • Teddy Roosevelt Terrier
  • Tibetan Mastiff
  • Tiffany
  • Tiger
  • Turkish Angora
  • Uakari
  • Utonagan
  • Vampire Bat
  • Vaquita
  • Vervet Monkey
  • Wallaby
  • Walrus
  • Warthog
  • Water Buffalo
  • Water Vole
  • Weasel
  • Welsh Corgi
  • West Highland Terrier
  • Western Gorilla
  • Western Lowland Gorilla
  • Whippet
  • White Rhinoceros
  • White Tiger
  • White-Faced Capuchin
  • Wild Boar
  • Wildebeest
  • Wolf
  • Wolverine
  • Wombat
  • Woolly Mammoth
  • Woolly Monkey
  • Xerus
  • Yak
  • Yorkshire Terrier
  • Zebra
  • Zebu
  • Zonkey
  • Zorse

What animals are in class Myxini?

Hagfish, Duiker Point, Cape Peninsula.
Hagfish

Can use slim to suffocate marine predators or escape capture

  • Hagfish

What animals are in class Reptilia?

Aldabra Giant Tortoise

One got to be 255 years old!

Alligator

They have two sets of eyelids!

Bearded dragon (Pogona barbata) - friendliest reptile
Bearded Dragon

Can grow to up 24 inches long!

  • Aldabra Giant Tortoise
  • Alligator
  • Bearded Dragon
  • Caiman
  • Caiman Lizard
  • Chameleon
  • Crocodile
  • Desert Tortoise
  • Frilled Lizard
  • Galapagos Tortoise
  • Gecko
  • Gharial
  • Gila Monster
  • Glass Lizard
  • Green Anole
  • Iguana
  • Indian Star Tortoise
  • King Cobra
  • Komodo Dragon
  • Leaf-Tailed Gecko
  • Leopard Tortoise
  • Lizard
  • Monitor Lizard
  • Radiated Tortoise
  • Rattlesnake
  • River Turtle
  • Sand Lizard
  • Sea Turtle
  • Slow Worm
  • Snake
  • Snapping Turtle
  • Thorny Devil
  • Tortoise
  • Tuatara
  • Water Dragon

What animals are in class Sarcopterygii?

Coelacanth pair underwaterr
Coelacanth

The coelacanth first evolved almost 400 million years ago.

South American lungfish
Lungfish

The lungfish first evolved almost 400 million years ago.

  • Coelacanth
  • Lungfish

What animals are in class Scyphozoa?

Blue Jellyfish Medusa Colored by the Light
Jellyfish

Have tentacles around their mouths!

  • Jellyfish

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