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fsuadamson Forum Pro
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Posted: April 18 2007 at 11:15am | IP Logged
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MacBeth or anyone with more knowledge than myself in this area ....
Can you lead me to any books, posters, websites, links, with Animal Kingdom Classification Charts?
We are studying Crickets right now and I want my girls to *see* and be able to trace out the line for these insects.
I have searched the Internet extensively but I am probably not requesting the right information. Right now the only book we have to reference is "The Usborne Science Encyclopedia" but it only shows the line for Chordates.
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I can't wait to see what MacBeth recommends; but in the meantime. . . .
For charts I've long longed for these:
inprintforchildren.com (It won't allow a direct link to the pages; click "products," then "Biology/Classification"; then "Animal Kingdom Chart and Cards.")
They've also got five kingdom charts and cards, fungi charts and cards, plant kingdom charts--oh, lots of goodies.
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Leslie,
this is not a chart, but two websites we like with classification info are Animal Diversity Web and the Tree of Life Web Project. (I linked to the cricket page) Tree of life isn't the easiest to navigate but it gives classification and there are interesting teacher resources if you poke around.
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Celeste, love your sig line. Too funny!
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Well Marjorie,
I was able to follow the classification line *clearly* up to "Insecta" but after that we really tried to map out the classes, familias etc and it just got more and more confusing.
I am just too visual and even though the Animal Diversity Web seemed thorough I just couldn't *see* the line?
I hope someone can shed some more *visual* light???
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fsuadamson wrote:
I was able to follow the classification line *clearly* up to "Insecta" but after that we really tried to map out the classes, familias etc and it just got more and more confusing. |
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It's confusing because there are just so many. The class Insecta (or Uniramia) is the most challenging to have a "complete" chart of any type because of the millions of species within it (more than all the other species in the entire animal kingdom combined).
The insecta are divided into about 29 orders. And the families within those orders are very numerous. For example, within the order Lepidoptera (the butterflies) there are about 90 families and within each family are a number of genera and within each genus are a number of species. There are also super classes and subclasses and sub orders, etc. - it can get extremely confusing. It's easier to follow just one species backward than to try to see a visual of the whole class if that makes sense.
This site has a taxonomic tree showing the branching of the various orders in the class Insecta, so will take you a little further than you had gone. The crickets are part of the order Orthoptera ("straight wing").
Here is another class insecta family tree. If you click on the order you are interested in it has good basic info on that grouping.
This Bug Guide site can take you through the line with a particular species. In this case the link is to House cricket line. It's an excellent all around site on insects.
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Mary,
I've been meaning to post a thank you for a couple days now. The websites were very helpful in our research.
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Leslie, I came across this neat site for classification that might be useful in the future. Catalogue of LIfe: 2007 Annual Checklist I punched in House Cricket and was taken to a nice page, click on the accepted scientific name and there is a classification chart etc. I know several naturalists that participated in the Blogger Bio Blitz were using it to ID species. FYI :-)
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Just found this fantastic book -Buzz which includes a nice taxonomy tree of insects.
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