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Classification, Kingdom - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Carnivora
        
        Procyonidae
        
        Usually omnivores
        
        Meat eaters
      - Feed offspring with milk from milk glands
      - Artiodactyla
        
        Even-toed hoofed animals
    - - Smooth skin permeable to gases, breed in moist habitats, all descended from tetrapods
      - Apoda (Caecilians)
        
        Carnivorous, legless, long, with ring-like folds, short or no tail
        
        Have eyes with only rods, a tentacle for detecting stimuli and an ability to detect low frequency sounds
        
        There are 180 species, some are aquatic some are terrestrial
        
        Most give birth to live young, some produce eggs which hatch to form aquatic larvae
        
        Bilaterally symmetrical like snakes and worms
      - Caudata (Salamanders)
        
        Long slender bodies with a long tail and four limbs
        
        Live in water or damp areas
        
        Front limbs have four digits (finger bones) and back have five
      - All vertebrates, cold blooded (ectotherms)
      - Anura (Frogs)
        
        Mostly produce aquatic larvae with gills from eggs
        
        Smooth moist skin, four legs, no tail, flat skull
        
        Large eyes, small teeth
        
        lose their gills during metamorphosis making them air breathing
        
        Each species has a unique croak that can travel through water and air
        
        Toads are a sub-group with drier skin often found in more arid climates
        
        Dendrobatidae (Poison dart frogs)
        
        Phyllobates
        
        Phyllobates terribilis (golden poison frog)
        
        Bright yellow skin, large eyes, long digits (fingers)
        
        Colourfull, highly toxic skin secretions
        
        Native to Central and South America
        
        Around 200 species
        
        Mostly terrestrial, carnivorous, very small (around an inch tall)
      - Three orders
    - - Passeriformes
        
        Perching birds
        
        Motacillidae
        
        Motacilla
        
        Motacilla flava (Western yellow wagtail)
        
        Yellow and green with medium length tail
        
        Wagtails
        
        Usually nest on the ground
        
        Often associated with watery habitats
        
        Longer tailed
        
        Often quite colorful
        
        Anthus
        
        Pipits
        
        Anthus pratensis (Meadow pipit)
        
        Common in upland areas
        
        Small, brown with familiar piping call
        
        Often brown or grey
        
        Eat small insects
        
        Around 53 species, some are able to interbreed
        
        Small to medium sized birds with wagging tails
      - Accipitriformes
        
        Accipitridae
        
        Milvus
        
        Medium-sized group of birds containing three kite species with distinct plumage and voice
        
        Milvus Milvus (Red kite)
        
        Distinct rust red body and pale head
        
        Milvus Migrans (black kite)
        
        Dull, dark colours and only pale underneath the head
        
        Large birds with generally sleek pointed heads
        
        Large, carnivorous, long legs, hooked beaks
- - - - Family
        
        Genus
        
        Species