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The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners. [1] Most terms used here may be found in common dictionaries and general information web sites. [2] [3] [4
Didelphimorphia is the order of common opossums of the Western Hemisphere. Opossums probably diverged from the basic South American marsupials in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene. They are small to medium-sized marsupials, about the size of a large house cat, with a long snout and prehensile tail. Family: Didelphidae (American opossums)
This is a list of North American mammals. It includes all mammals currently found in the United States, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Canada, Greenland, Bermuda, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean region, whether resident or as migrants. This article does not include species found only in captivity.
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 ...
When there is no common name or no consensus can be reached on the most common name, or if it isn't clear what taxon the common name refers to (as in the sardine example above), use the scientific name: Pegomya geniculata is a fly without common names. Eulimella torquata was first described in 2011, and has no common name.
Lists of reptiles of North America (2 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Lists of animals of North America" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Pages in category "Lists of animals of the United States" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This category is for articles which discuss the use of a common (vernacular) name shared by multiple species of animals which do not correspond to a taxon. See also: Category: Animals by common name Note: Disambiguation pages are categorized in Category: Animal common name disambiguation pages .