paraphyletic group
in cladistic analysis, an ancestral species and some, but not all, of its descendants
Eusporangiate fern
common name
ground sloth
informal group of mammals (fossil)
sea snake
legless reptiles living in the sea
Kinglet
trivial name
mite
common name for small arachnids
flour beetle
member of the darkling beetle genera Tribolium or Tenebrio
non-human animal
any animal other than a human
planarian
flatworm of the Turbellaria class
fish
vertebrate animal that lives in water and (typically) has gills
cattle
large, domesticated, cloven-hooved herbivores
grade
non-monophyletic grouping of organisms united by morphological or physiological characteristics
protist
eukaryotic organisms that are not animals, plants or fungi
cricket
common name of insects
Butcherbird
Australasian songbird
oyster
salt-water bivalve mollusc
marine flowering plant
group of plants, with the same habit
bandicoot
marsupials endemic to the Australia-New Guinea region in the order Peramelemorphia
gazelle
fast slender grazing mammal in Africa
stem group
paraphyletic assemblage; pan-group minus the crown group