List of families

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This is a list of families used in scientific classification.

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[edit] Kingdom Animalia

[edit] Phylum Chordata

[edit] Class Aves

[edit] Order Accipitriformes

[edit] Order Anseriformes

[edit] Order Apodiformes

[edit] Order Archaeopterygiformes

Extinct.

[edit] Order Caprimulgiformes

[edit] Order Charadriiformes

[edit] Order Ciconiiformes

[edit] Order Coliiformes

[edit] Order Columbiformes

[edit] Order Confuciusornithiformes

Extinct.

[edit] Order Coraciiformes

[edit] Order Cuculiformes

[edit] Subclass Enantiornithes

Extinct.

[edit] Order Falconiformes

[edit] Order Galliformes

[edit] Order Gaviiformes

[edit] Order Gruiformes

[edit] Order Hesperornithiformes

Extinct.

[edit] Order Ichthyornithiformes

Extinct.

  • Family Ichthyornithidae (fossil)

[edit] Order Jeholornithiformes

Extinct.

  • Family Jeholornithidae (fossil)

[edit] Order Omnivoropterygiformes

Extinct.

[edit] Order Passeriformes

[edit] Order Pelecaniformes

[edit] Order Phoenicopteriformes

[edit] Order Piciformes

  • Family Bucconidae (puffbirds, nunbirds and nunlets: some 30 species)
  • Family Capitonidae (barbets: about 80 species)
  • Family Galbulidae (jacamars: 18 species)
  • Family Indicatoridae (honeyguides: 17 species)
  • Family Miopiconidae (fossil)
  • Family Picidae (woodpeckers, piculets, and wrynecks: over 200 species)
  • Family Primoscenidae (fossil)
  • Family Ramphastidae (toucans: about 40 species)

[edit] Order Podicipediformes

[edit] Order Procellariiformes

[edit] Order Psittaciformes

[edit] Order Pteroclidiformes

[edit] Order Sphenisciformes

[edit] Order Strigiformes

[edit] Order Struthioniformes

[edit] Order Tinamiformes

[edit] Order Trochiliformes

[edit] Order Trogoniformes

[edit] Order Turniciformes

[edit] Order Yanornithiformes

Extinct.

  • Family Yanornithidae (fossil)

[edit] Class Mammalia

[edit] Order Artiodactyla

[edit] Order Carnivora

[edit] Order Cetacea

[edit] Order Chiroptera

[edit] Order Dasyuromorphia

[edit] Order Dermoptera

[edit] Order Didelphimorphia

[edit] Order Diprotodontia

[edit] Order Hyracoidea

[edit] Order Insectivora

[edit] Order Lagomorpha

[edit] Order Macroscelidea

[edit] Order Microbiotheria

[edit] Order Monotremata

[edit] Order Notoryctemorphia

[edit] Order Paucituberculata

[edit] Order Peramelemorphia

  • Family Thylacomyidae: (bilbies, 1 extant species, 1 extinct)
  • Family Chaeropodidae: (Pig-footed Bandicoot, 1 extinct species)
  • Family Peramelidae: (bandicoots, 20 extant species, 1 extinct)
  • Family Yaralidae: (2 described fossil species)

[edit] Order Perissodactyla

  • Family Equidae: horses and allies, about 9 species in one genus
  • Family Tapiridae: tapirs, 4 species in one genus
  • Family Rhinocerotidae: rhinoceroses, 5 species in 4 genera

[edit] Order Pholidota

  • Family Epoicotheriidae (extinct)
  • Family Manidae
  • Family Metacheiromyidae (extinct)

[edit] Order Primates

  • Family Aotidae: night or owl monkeys (douroucoulis) (8 species)
  • Family Atelidae: howler, spider and woolly monkeys (24 species)
  • Family Daubentoniidae: Aye-aye (1 species)
  • Family Cebidae: marmosets, tamarins, capuchins and squirrel monkeys (56 species)
  • Family Cheirogaleidae: dwarf lemurs and mouse-lemurs (24 species)
  • Family Galagidae: galagos (19 species)
  • Family Hominidae: humans and other great apes (7 species)
  • Family Hylobatidae: gibbons or "lesser apes" (13 species)
  • Family Indriidae: woolly lemurs and allies (12 species)
  • Family Lemuridae: lemurs (19 species)
  • Family Lepilemuridae: sportive lemurs (11 species)
  • Family Lorisidae: lorises, pottos and allies (9 species)
  • Family Cercopithecidae: Old World monkeys (135 species)
  • Family Pitheciidae: titis, sakis and uakaris (41 species)
  • Family Tarsiidae: tarsiers (7 species)

[edit] Order Proboscidea

[edit] Order Rodentia

[edit] Order Scandentia

[edit] Order Sirenia

[edit] Order Tubulidentata

[edit] Order Xenarthra

[edit] Class Sauropsida

[edit] Order Procolophonomorpha

[edit] Order Testudines

[edit] Order Araeoscelidia

Extinct.

  • Family Araeoscelidae
  • Family Petrolacosauridae

[edit] Order Younginiformes

Extinct.

  • Family Younginidae

[edit] Order Placodontia

Extinct.

[edit] Order Nothosauria

Extinct.

[edit] Order Plesiosauria

Extinct.

[edit] Order Sphenodontia

[edit] Order Squamata

[edit] Infraclass Archosauromorpha

[edit] Order Choristodera

Extinct.

  • Family Champsosauridae
  • Family Cteniogenidae
  • Family Simoedosauridae

[edit] Order Prolacertiformes

Extinct.

[edit] Unranked Archosauriformes

Extinct.

[edit] Order Crocodylia

[edit] Order Pterosauria

Extinct.

[edit] Order Saurischia

Extinct (except for birds, listed under Class Aves).

[edit] Order Ornithischia

Extinct.

[edit] Kingdom Plantae

[edit] Phylum Magnoliophyta

[edit] Class Magnoliopsida

[edit] Order Asterales