All Entries in the "Animals" Category
Cultivable Species of Brackish Water Fishes and Molluscs
Scientific Name English Name Malayalam Name Fenneropenaeus indicus Indian white shrimp [...]
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Scientific Names Of Fishes
No Malayalam name Species 1. അംജുപുല്ലി Trachinotus baillonii 2. അംബട്ടന് വാള Notopterus notopterus 3. അകൊലി Monodactylus argenteus 4. അകൊലി Platax orbicularis 5. അഗൊരി Alectis ciliaris 6. അഗോരി Alectis ciliaris 7. അഞ്ചുപുള്ളി Trachinotus baillonii 8. അടവ് Lactarius lactarius 9. അടവ് Lactarius lactarius 10. അണു Horaichthys setnai 11. അതുതിരുക്കൈ Pastinachus sephen 12. അന്പട്ട Opisthopterus tardoore 13. അന്പട്ട [...]
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Penguin
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Infraclass: Neognathae Order: Sphenisciformes Sharpe, 1891 Family: Spheniscidae Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the southern hemisphere, especially in Antarctica. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white [...]
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Black-headed Oriole
Kingdom:Animalia Phylum:Chordata Class:Aves Order:Passeriformes Family:Oriolidae Genus:Oriolus Species:O. larvatus The Black-headed Oriole (Oriolus larvatus) is an African passerine. It has a very striking appearance with a bright yellow body, contrasting black head and flesh-coloured beak.It breeds in much of sub-Saharan Africa from Sudan and Ethiopia in the north to South Africa in the south.It inhabits dry [...]
admin | May 28, 2011 | Comments 0
Whales
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Subclass: Eutheria Order: Cetacea Whale is the common name for various marine mammals of the order Cetacea.The term whale sometimes refers to all cetaceans, but more often it excludes dolphins and porpoises,which belong to suborder Odontoceti (toothed whales). This suborder also includes the sperm [...]
admin | May 26, 2011 | Comments 0
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth (about ten times the number of species of butterfly), with thousands of species yet to be described.Most species of moth [...]
admin | May 24, 2011 | Comments 0
Butterflies(flying beauties)
A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly’s life cycle consists of four parts, egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. Butterflies comprise the true butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea), the [...]
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Birds
Birds (class Aves) are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic (warm-blooded), egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from the 5 cm (2 in) Bee Hummingbird to the 2.75 m (9 [...]
admin | May 22, 2011 | Comments 0
Insects
Insects (from Latin insectum, means “cut into sections”) are a class of living creatures within the arthropods that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax, and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and two antennae. They are among the most diverse group of animals on the planet and include more than [...]
admin | May 22, 2011 | Comments 0
Treepie
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Corvidae The Indian Treepie is extremely agile while searching for food, clinging and clambering through the branches. Its acrobatic dances on the coconut palm leaf (ola) has given it the name olenjali in Malayalam. The treepies comprise four closely related genera [...]
admin | May 21, 2011 | Comments 0