The Animal Kingdom

Vertebrates (animal with backbones)

Fish

(31,000 species)

Features

-Live in water

-Breathe with gills

-Moist skin covered in scales

-Most lay eggs

-Cartilage or bony skin

-Cold-blooded

Examples

Snapper

Amphibian

(7,000 species)

Features

-Moist skin

-Lay their eggs in water

-Larvae breathe with gill

-Adults breathe with lungs

-Adults live on land

-Cold-blooded

Examples

Frogs









Toads

 

Salamander

Reptile

(10,000 species)

Features

-Dry scaly skin

-Lay eggs

-Breathe with lungs

-Cold-blooded

Examples

Tuatara

Snake

Lizard

Birds

(10,000 species)

Features

-Covered in feathers 

-Lay eggs with hard shells

-Have wings 

-Warm-blooded

-Breathe with lungs

Examples

Kiwi

Owl

Mammal 

(5,500 species)

Features

-Body covered in hair or fur

-Feed young on milk

-Warm-blooded

-Breathe using lungs

Examples

Whale

Dogs

Invertebrates (animals without backbones)

True worms

(24,000 species)

Features

-Body is tubular and/or made up of segments

-Tube-like digestive system

Examples

Earthworms

Tubeworms 

Flat worms

(12,000 species)

Features

-Breathe through their skin

-Unsegmented body

Examples

Tapeworms

Sponges

(10,000 species)

Features

-Take in water through pores (little holes) in their bodies from which they filter (take out) little bits of food

Examples

Sea sponges

Cnidarians

(9,000 species)

Features

-Hollow body with specialised cells (stingers) that they use for 

-Live in water

Examples

Jellyfish 

Molluscs

(100,000 species)

Features

-Most live in the sea 

-Most have shells

-Unsegmented body

Examples

Snails

Octopus 

Echinoderms

(9,000 species)

Features

-A skeleton made up of five plates

-Tube feet

-Live in sea

Examples

Kina

Sand dollars

Arthropods

(>1,000,000 species)

Features

-Jointed legs

-Divided into four further sup groups

Crustaceans

(>1,000,000 species)

Features

-Most are aquatic

-Body divided into three parts

-Most breathe with gills

-Hard outer skeletons

Examples

Crabs

Crayfish

Myriapods

(>1,000,000 species)

Features

-Many pairs of legs 

-A single pair of antenna 

-Simple eyes

Examples

Millipedes

Insects

(>1,000,000 species)

Features

-Body divided into three parts
-Three pairs of legs and two pairs of wings
-One pair of antennae on the head 
-Compound eyes

Examples

Crickets

Bees

Arachnids

(>1,000,000 species)

Features

-Body divided into two parts

-Four pairs of legs and no wings

-No antennae

Examples

Ticks 

Spiders