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FAMILY In TAXONOMY
What is Family???
Family” is placed between the order and genus
classification categories. Organism is a Family have
more characteristics in common than they do with the
rest of the organism in their order.
In Taxonomy, The Family ranks below the order and
above the genus. Members of the same taxonomic
family are more closely related to each other than
they are to other members of the same order. For
example, foxes, coyotes, lions, otters, and weasels all
belong to the order Carnivora.
#1CANIDAE
Canidae is a biological family of
dog-like carnivorans, colloquially
referred to as dogs, and constitutes
a clade. A member f this family is
also called a canid. The family
includes three subfamilies: the
extant Caninae and the extinct
Borophaginae and Hesperocyoninae.
The Caninae are known as canines,
and include domestic dogs, wolves,
coyotes, foxes, jackals and other
extant and extinct species.
#2LEGUMES
The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, commonly known
as the legume, pea, or bean family, are a large
and agriculturally important family of flowering
plants. It includes trees, shrubs, and perennial or
annual herbaceous plants, which are easily
recognized by their fruit (legume) and their
compound, stipulate leaves. The family is widely
distributed, and is the third-largest land plant
family in number of species, behind only the
Orchidaceae and Asteraceae, with about 765
genera and nearly 20,000 known species.
#3FABALES
The Fabales are an order of flowering plants included in the rosid group
of the eudicots in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II classification
system. In the APG II circumscription, this order includes the families
Fabaceae or legumes (including the subfamilies Caesalpinioideae,
Mimosoideae, and Faboideae), Quillajaceae, Polygalaceae or milkworts
(including the families Diclidantheraceae, Moutabeaceae, and
Xanthophyllaceae), and Surianaceae. Under the Cronquist system and
some other plant classification systems, the order Fabales contains only
the family Fabaceae. In the classification system of Dahlgren the Fabales
were in the superorder Fabiflorae (also called Fabanae) with three
families corresponding to the subfamilies of Fabaceae in APG II. The
other families treated in the Fabales by the APG II classification were
placed in separate orders by Cronquist, the Polygalaceae within its own
order, the Polygalales, and the Quillajaceae and Surianaceae within the
Rosales.
#4CANIS
Canis is a genus of the Caninae
which includes multiple extant
species, such as wolves, dogs,
coyotes, and golden jackals. Species
of this genus are distinguished by
their moderate to large size, their
massive, well-developed skulls and
dentition, long legs, and
comparatively short ears and tails
#5ANURA
A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous
group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing
the order Anura. The oldest fossil "proto-frog"
Triadobatrachus is known from the Early Triassic of
Madagascar, but molecular clock dating suggests their
split from other amphibians may extend further back to
the Permian, 265 million years ago. Frogs are widely
distributed, ranging from the tropics to subarctic regions,
but the greatest concentration of species diversity is in
tropical rainforest. Frogs account for around 88% of
extant amphibian species. They are also one of the five
most diverse vertebrate orders. Warty frog species tend
to be called toads, but the distinction between frogs and
toads is informal, not from taxonomy or evolutionary
history.