Different types of animlas

animal list

Reptiles and Amphibians

Reptiles, like amphibians, make up a fairly small proportion of terrestrial animals—but in the form of dinosaurs, they ruled the earth for over 150 million years. There are four basic types of reptiles: crocodiles and alligators, turtles and tortoises, snakes, and lizards.

  • Those keeping reptiles or amphibians are affectionately called 'herpers.'
  • Herpetology includes turtles, snakes, lizards, tortoises, amphisbaenids, crocodiles, toads, frogs, caecilians, newts and salamanders. The name reptile, refers to creeping or crawling animals.
  • The name amphibian refers to dual modes of existence. For example, frogs are like secret agents looking like a fish in their early life and then grow legs as they become adults.
  • Amphibians have moist, smooth or rough skin.
  • Mammals

    A mammal is a a warm-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that is distinguished by the possession of hair or fur, the secretion of milk by females for the nourishment of the young, and (typically) the birth of live young.

  • All mammals have hair, even dolphins and whales that live in the ocean.
  • Most mammals are helpless when they are babies
  • All mammals except ant eaters have teeth.
  • All mammal babies drink milk from their mothers.
  • Iverterbrates

    an animal lacking a backbone, such as an arthropod, mollusk, annelid, coelenterate, etc. The invertebrates constitute an artificial division of the animal kingdom, comprising 95 percent of animal species and about 30 different phyla.

  • Cnidarians: jellyfish, corals, sea anemones
  • Annelida: earthworms
  • Echinodermata—sea star, sea urchins, sea cucumbers.
  • Arthropoda—insects, ticks, spiders, grasshoppers, lobsters, crabs.