ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE. 



Animal Kingdom. 



Branch: or Subkrngdom. 

 Class. 

 Order. 



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. 

 Ojder. 

 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 days, even many educated people are unfamiliar. It 

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

 this nomenclature. 



