Lists of animals
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Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development. Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described—of which around 1 million are insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million in total. Animals range in size from 8.5 millionths of a metre to Template:Convert long and have complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs. The study of animals is called zoology.
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.
The following are lists of animals.
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By characteristic
Eating behaviour
By population
By status
By taxonomy
- List of chordate orders – Linnaean orders within Chordata
Amphibians
Birds
Fish
Mammals
- List of mammals - placental mammals and marsupials
- List of bears
- List of cetaceans
- List of extinct cetaceans
- List of dolphins
- List of whales
Reptiles
- List of reptiles
- List of snakes
- List of snakes by common name
- List of Testudines families (tortoises, turtles and terrapins)
- List of dinosaurs
- List of pterosaurs
- List of plesiosaurs
- List of ichthyosaurs
Invertebrates
Individual animals (real or fictional)
- List of individual apes
- List of fictional bears
- List of non-fictional bears
- List of historical and fictional birds
- List of cats
- List of notable dogs
- List of historical elephants
- List of historical horses
- List of individual monkeys
- List of fictional pachyderms
By region
- Lists of amphibians by region
- Lists of birds by region
- Lists of mammals by region
- Lists of reptiles by region
Other
- Outline of zoology
- List of animal names
- List of animals (Borges) – famous "paradoxical" literary list
- List of animals by number of neurons
- List of animals with fraudulent diplomas
