ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE. 5 



Animal Kingdom. 



Branch or Subkingdom. 

 Class. 

 Order. 

 Family. 

 Genus. 

 Species. 

 Individual. 



It is sometime desirable to indicate other groups than those named 

 above. Thus a family may be divided into subfamilies, or an order 

 into suborders. And occasionally an even more minute division is 

 made. Thus several closely-allied families may be grouped together 

 as a superfamily, a group of lower rank than a suborder. The follow- 

 ing table includes all the grades of groups now commonly employed : 



Kingdom. 



Branch or Subkingdom. 

 Class. 

 Subclass. 

 Superorder. 

 Order. 

 Suborder. 

 Superfamily. 

 Family. 

 Subfamily. 

 Genus. 

 Subgenus. 

 Species. 

 Subspecies. 

 Variety. 

 Individual. 



II. Zoological Nomenclature. 



(For advanced students.} 



At the beginning of his studies of Natural History the student is 

 met with what is to him a new and strange set of names. These 

 names are often long. In form they belong to a dead language, with 

 which, in these da}'s, even many educated people are unfamiliar. It 

 is not strange that we often hear complaint respecting the difficulty of 

 this nomenclature. 



