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Bilateria is an extremely diverse group of animals containing a vast majority of its species, largely due to the enormous amount of arthropods. This article is a list of orders contained within Bilateria separated by phylum. Groups that are not contained within an order are listed separately.
Rodents are animals that gnaw with two continuously growing incisors. Forty percent of mammal species are rodents, and they inhabit every continent except Antarctica. This list contains circa 2,700 species in 518 genera in the order Rodentia. [1]
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
Please follow the IUCN Red List when you add or remove species, subspecies, varieties, stocks or sub-populations. For brevity use binomial or trinomial nomenclature only, that is, omit common names and the name of the scientific authority.
Please stick to IUCN Red List Critically Endangered Animalia when you add or remove species, subspecies, stocks or sub-populations. Binomial and trinomial nomenclature should be used, no more. To get more clarity, surname of scientific authority should be ignored.
Found in 1914, 1969 and the 1970s; now very rare or already extinct. Its taxonomy is unresolved. A part of the house wren complex; other scientific names for it include T. musculus guadeloupensis and T. guadeloupensis. Martinique house wren, Troglodytes aedon martinicensis (Martinique, West Indies, c. 1890) Last found in 1886.
According to Italian news agencies, a huge number of the birds were found to have blue stains on their beaks that may have been caused by paint or hypoxia. [ 17 ] Over the weekend of 8–9 January, "over a hundred" dead birds were found clustered together on a California highway, while "thousands of dead gizzard shad " (a species of fish ...
The largest specimen yet found is estimated to weigh up to 1,600 kg (3,500 lb) and stood up to 3.39 m (11 ft 1 in) tall on the hind-limbs [41] The largest living species of the family Felidae is the tiger (Panthera tigris), [26] with reports of males up to 388.7 and 465 kg (857 and 1,025 lb) in the wilderness and captivity, respectively.