The Animal Kingdom

Vertebrates

Fish

Features:

• Live in water
• Breaths with gills
• Moist skin covered in scales
• Most lay eggs
• Cartilage or bony spine
• Cold Blooded

Examples:

• Wels catfish
• Arapaima
• Guppy
• Pond loach

Amphibians

Features

• Moist skin
• Lay their eggs in water
• Larvae breathe with gills
• Adults breathe with lungs
• Adults live on land
• Cold blooded

Examples

• Frog
• Salamander
• Caecilian
• Diplocaulus
• Labyrinthodontia
• Anthracosauria

Reptiles

Features:

• Dry, scaly skin
• Lay eggs
• Breathe with lungs
• Cold blooded

Examples:

• Snake
• Lizard
• Crocodile
• Gecko

Birds

Features:

• Covered in feather
• Lay eggs with hard shells
• Have wings
• Warm-blooded
• Breathe with lungs

Examples: 

• Lovebird
• Parrot
• Chicken

Mammals

Features:

• Body covered in hair or fur
• Feed young on milk
• Warm-blooded
• Breathe using lungs 

Example

• Me
• Ella
• Jakita
• Brayden
• Cats

Invertebrates 

True worms

Features:

• Body is tubular and or made up of segments
• Tube-like digestive system

Examples:

• Ragworm 
• Earthworm

Flatworms

Features:

• Breathe through their skin
• Unsegmented body

Examples:

• Tapeworm
• Flukes

Sponges

Features:

• Takes in water through pores in their bodies from which they filter little bits of food

Examples:

• Demosponge

Cnidarians

Features:

• Hollow body with specialised cells that they use for capturing prey
• Live in water

Examples:

• Jellyfish
• Sea anemone

Molluscs

Features:

• Most live in the sea
• Most have shells
• Unsegmented body

Examples:

• Squid
• Cuttlefish
• Octopus

Echinoderms 

Features:

• A skeleton made up of 5 plates
• Tube feet
• Live in the sea

Examples:

• Starfish

Arthropods

Features:

• Jointed legs
• Divided into four subgroups (Crustaceans, myriapods, insects, arachnids)

Examples:

• Crabs
• Butterfly
• Centipede
• Spider

Weird Animals