Lists of animals

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Animals may be listed or indexed by many criteria, including taxonomy, status as endangered species, their geographical location, and their portrayal and/or naming in human culture.

By common name

• List of animal names (male, female, young, and group)

By aspect

• List of common household pests
• List of animal sounds
• List of animals by number of neurons

By domestication

• List of domesticated animals

By eating behaviour

• List of herbivorous animals
• List of omnivores
• List of carnivores

By endangered status

• IUCN Red List endangered species (Animalia)
  • United States Fish and Wildlife Service list of endangered species

By extinction

• List of extinct birds
• List of extinct mammals
  • List of extinct cetaceans
• List of extinct butterflies

By region

• Lists of amphibians by region
• Lists of birds by region
• Lists of mammals by region
• Lists of reptiles by region

By individual (real or fictional)

Real

• Lists of snakes
• List of individual cats
  • List of oldest cats
• List of giant squids
• List of individual elephants
• List of historical horses
  • List of leading Thoroughbred racehorses
• List of individual apes
• List of individual bears
  • List of giant pandas
• List of individual birds
• List of individual bovines
• List of individual cetaceans
• List of individual dogs
  • List of oldest dogs
• List of individual monkeys
• List of individual pigs
• List of wealthiest animals

Fictional

• List of fictional bears
• List of fictional birds
• List of fictional cats
• List of fictional pachyderms
• List of fictional pigs

List of Animals (incomplete)

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (June 2023)

By taxonomical classification

Phyla

The animal Kingdom contains some 35 extant phyla.

Bilateria: Xenacoelomorpha, Nephrozoa

Nephrozoa: Protostomes, Deuterostomes

• Phylum Proarticulata † Disputed if this is in or out of Bilateria and Phylum Xenacoelomorpha is basal

Deuterostomia

• Phylum
  Chordata
• Ambulacraria (unranked)
  • Phylum
    Hemichordata
  • Phylum Echinodermata
  • Phylum
    Cambroernida
    †

Protostomia

Ecdysozoa

• Phylum Saccorhytida?^[1] †
• Cycloneuralia (unranked)
  • Scalidophora (unranked)
    • Phylum Kinorhyncha
    • Phylum Loricifera
    • Phylum Priapulida
  • Nematoida (unranked)
    • Phylum
      Nematoda
    • Phylum Nematomorpha
• Panarthropoda (unranked)
  • Phylum Onychophora
  • Tactopoda (unranked)
    • Phylum
      Tardigrada
    • Phylum
      Arthropoda

Spiralia

• Gnathifera
  • Phylum
    Gnathostomulida
  • Phylum
    Rotifera
• Mesozoa
  • Phylum Dicyemida
  • Phylum Orthonectida
• Rouphozoa
  • Phylum
    Gastrotricha
  • Phylum
    Platyhelminthes
• Lophotrochozoa
  • Phylum Hyolitha †
  • Phylum
    Annelida
  • Phylum
    Brachiopoda
  • Phylum Bryozoa
  • Phylum
    Cycliophora
  • Phylum Entoprocta
  • Phylum Mollusca
  • Phylum Nemertea
  • Phylum
    Phoronida

Chordata

• List of chordate orders

Fish

• List of fish families
• List of fish common names

Amphibians

• List of amphibians

Reptiles

• List of reptiles
• List of ichthyosaur genera
• List of pterosaur genera
• List of plesiosaur genera
• List of dinosaur genera
• List of snakes
• List of snake genera
• List of boine species and subspecies
• List of erycine species and subspecies
• List of pythonid species and subspecies
• List of tropidophiid species and subspecies
• List of uropeltid species and subspecies
• List of crotaline species and subspecies
• List of viperine species and subspecies
• List of anomalepidid species and subspecies
• List of leptotyphlopid species and subspecies
• List of typhlopid species and subspecies
• List of Testudines families (tortoises, turtles and terrapins)

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