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There are over 1.4m species in the animal kingdom, split between more than 7 thousand families but which is the largest?! Join us on a journey through the animal kingdom as we explore all of the major groups of vertebrates before diving into molluscs and arthropods to determine the largest family in the entire animal kingdom.
Chapters
0:00 Taxonomic ranks
0:49 Mammals
2:13 Birds
3:36 Amphibians
4:49 Fish
6:45 Reptiles
8:02 Phylums
8:23 Invertebrates
8:46 Molluscs
9:46 Arthropoda
10:09 Arachnida
11:11 Insecta
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Pyramidellidae Shells Albano PG et al / WikiCommons
Arctic Woolly Bear Moth 1 Mike Beauregard / WikiCommons
Arctic Woolly Bear Moth 2 Oskar Liset Pryds Hansen / WikiCommons
Editorial Attribution
Golden ground beetle (Carabus auratus) Martin Dlugo / Shutterstock.com
Media & Attribution
Unless stated above, all still images are used under license from Shutterstock.com. Thank you to everyone who makes their work available for use. Covering all of the wonderful species in these videos would not be possible without your incredible work.
Sources & Further Reading
Listed below are the sources used to create the video.
Sources
Total for Vertebrata (75,472) = Totals from the 5 individual sources listed below: Fish - 36,775 + Reptiles - 12,060 + Birds - 11,195 + Amphibians - 8,724 + Mammals - 6,718
Total for Chordata (78,626) = 5 * Totals from Vertebrata (75,472 sp / 1,192 fam) + Cephalochordata (30 sp & 1 fam) + Tunicata (3,124 sp & 35 fam) from Catalogue of Life.
Catalogue of Life Checklist
www.catalogueoflife.org/
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Vandepitte, L., Hobern, D., Schalk, P., DeWalt, R. E., Ma, K., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Adlard, R., Aedo, C., et al. (2024). Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2024-01-24). Catalogue of Life. doi.org/10.48580/dfrdl
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
www.gbif.org/
GBIF Secretariat (2023). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-02-11.
Mammal Species
www.mammaldiversity.org/index...
Bird Species
datazone.birdlife.org
Amphibian Species
Frost, Darrel R. 2024. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.2 (Date of access). Electronic Database accessible at amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org.... American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. doi.org/10.5531/db.vz.0001
Fish Species
researcharchive.calacademy.or...
Reptile Species
reptile-database.reptarium.cz/
Tapanuli Orangutan Discovery
www.nature.com/articles/natur...
Microhylidae
animaldiversity.org/accounts/...
Pristimantis - most speciose vertebrate genus
www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
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