Animals classification

INVERTEBRATES

VERTEBRATES

VERTEBRATES

amphibians

birds

mammals

reptiles

fish

• Most of them are viviparous.
• They have fur or hair.
• They breathe with their lungs.
• Female produce milk to feed their babies.

FUR

• They are oviparous.
• They breathe with their lungs.
• They have two legs and two wings.
• They have a beak and a tail.
• They have feathers.

BEAK

WINGS

FEATHERS

TAIL

• Most fish are oviparous.
• They can live in fresh water or salt water.
• They breathe through their gills.
• They have scales.
• They have fins and a tail.

FINS

TAIL

SCALES

GILLS

• Most are oviparous.
• They have moist skin.
• They lay their eggs in water.
• Baby amphibians grow and live in water. And they breathe through their gills.

• Most of them are oviparous.
• They breathe with their lungs.
• They have dry scaly skin.
• Most reptiles have four limbs.

INVERTEBRATES

Arthropods

Sponges

Molluscs

Cnidarians

Arthropods

Annelids

Echinoderms

Insects

Arachnids

Antennae

Abdomen

Wings

8 legs

Head

Head and thorax

Thorax

6 legs

Abdomen

Crustaceans

Antennae

Myriapods

4 antennae

Segments

Shell

2 claws

8 legs

Legs

Cephalopods

• They have a soft body.
• They have a large head with tentacles.
• Some have a shell.
• They live in water.

1. They have soft bodies.
2. They have two antennae with one eye on each.
3. Some have a shell.
4. They can live on land or in water.

Bivalves

Gastropods

• They have soft bodies.
• They have two shells.
• They live in water.

• They have hard, spiky skin.
• They live on the sea floor.

• They have soft bodies.
• They have moist skin.
• They can live in water, on land or inside other animals.

• They have jelly-like bodies.
• They have tentacles.
• They live in the sea.

• They can be smooth and mushy, or rough, hard and prickly.
• They live in water and cannot move about.