A group of animals or plants of a category above an order and below a phylum. In the Linnaean system of classification, it was the highest category[1].
E.g. Birds are in the class Aves[1].
Example
- Class: Aves
- Order: Accipitriformes
- Family: Pandionidae
- Genus: Pandion
- Species: Pandion haliaetus
- Genus: Pandion
- Family: Pandionidae
- Order: Accipitriformes
Common name: Osprey
For the full taxonomy of the osprey, see Template:Taxonomy/Pandion_haliaetus.
References
- ^ a b Terres, John K. (1980). The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ISBN 0394466519.
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