To: blam
Hmmm...
Dogs, foxes Family Canidae
Cats, Family felidae
- Order CARNIVORA
- Carnivores
- Family Canidae
- Dogs, Foxes
(Genus: 5, Species: 6, Individual: 329)
- Family Ursidae
- Bears
(Genus: 1, Species: 1, Individual: 3)
- Family Procyonidae
- Raccoons
(Genus: 1, Species: 1, Individual: 6)
- Family Mustelidae
- Mustelids
(Genus: 4, Species: 7, Individual: 190)
- Family Viverridae
- Civets, Mongooses, etc.
(Genus: 4, Species: 4, Individual: 12)
- Family Herpestidae
- Mongooses
(Genus: 1, Species: 1, Individual: 7)
- Family Felidae
- Cats
(Genus: 2, Species: 12, Individual: 25)
- Family Otariidae
- Eared Seals, Sealions
(Genus: 1, Species: 1, Individual: 1)
- Family Phocidae
- Earless Seals
(Genus: 1, Species: 1, Individual: 1)
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123 posted on
12/18/2002 12:21:43 PM PST by
bert
To: bert
Okay, I'm not sure why the little impromptu lesson in zoology (at least, that's the kind of stuff I studied in that class, many long moons ago). Perhaps you can enlighten me about something. Way back in that zoology class, I learned something like kingdom, order, phylum, class, genus, family, species, so the full scientific name of an organism should have seven parts. But these days, when I do a Genbank search, I often see 11, 12, or 13 terms in what seems to be the species description. Have more levels been added to the classification system?
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