suborder

A group of insects like dragonflies that fly strongly and hold their wings flat when resting

A former group of water birds like ducks, geese, and swans

A group of small coastal fish like blennies and butterfish

A group of animals that includes most crabs and has a small tail folded under the body

A group of early lizard-hipped dinosaurs that have certain bone features

A group of soft sea corals that do not make hard skeletons

A group of birds that live near water, like plovers and sandpipers

A group of songbirds with simple voices and weak singing

A former group of insects like aphids, cicadas, and leafhoppers that suck plant sap

A group of jawless fish that includes lampreys but not hagfish

A group of reptiles that includes true lizards like chameleons and geckos

A group of seabirds like gulls or terns, including jaegers and skimmers

An older group used by scientists for animals like lemurs and lorises

A group of birds called broadbills that live mainly in tropical Asia and Africa

Group of soft corals in the sea like red corals and sea fans that grow in tree-like branches

A group of soft corals like red coral and sea fans

A large group of insects like water striders with front wings hard at the base and soft at the tip

Fish with hard plates and no jaws known from fossils that lived a very long time ago

A group some scientists use for migratory shorebirds, like sandpipers

A group of insects like the praying mantis

A group of jawless fish that include hagfish and are different from lampreys

A group of shrimp and prawns that scientists once put together

A group of slender flies with long thin antennae like mosquitoes and crane flies

A group of extinct sea reptiles that lived in the Triassic period

An old scientific group used to classify snakes

A group of large fruit bats like flying foxes that live in tropical regions

A group of Australian birds that includes lyrebirds and scrubbirds

A large group of bats that eat insects, not fruit

A group of fish with fins on the belly, like mullets and silversides

A group of rodents that includes rats and mice

A group of medium-sized dinosaurs that looked like ostriches

A group of land birds like bustards found in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia

Very large dinosaurs that eat plants with long necks and small heads, like Apatosaurus and Diplodocus

A group of rodents that includes squirrels, beavers, and gophers

A group of fish like scorpionfish and gurnards

A group of reptiles that includes all snakes with long, legless bodies

A group of primates that includes tarsiers

A group of birds that includes common songbirds

A group of jawless fish that includes lampreys with round sucking mouths

A group in older primate classifications that included lemurs and sometimes tarsiers but is not used by all scientists today

A group of sea animals like lobsters and crabs that walk on the sea floor

A group of lizards like chameleons and geckos

A group of meat-eating dinosaurs with short front legs from the Jurassic and Cretaceous

A large group of perching birds from the Americas, like flycatchers and antbirds

A group of mammals like armadillos, anteaters, and sloths from the Americas

A group of insects that includes damselflies, small thin flying insects