Dichotomous Key

Assignment:

Create a dichotomous key covering all the required categories of animals.

Requirements:

  • Key must be typed or written VERY nicely and presented in booklet format
  • Key must be organized and neat with correct spelling
  • Key must be easy to read and follow
  • A picture and complete description must be included for each terminal animal category
  • The following terminal categories of animals must be included in the key

 

  • Fishes
    • Jawless fish
      • Hagfish
      • Lamprey
    • Cartilaginous fish
      • Sharks
      • Skates and rays
    • Bony fish
      • Ray-finned fish
      • Lobe-finned fish
    • Amphibians
      • Frogs and toads
      • Salamanders and newts
      • Caecilians
    • Reptiles
      • Lizards and snakes
      • Turtles
      • Crocodiles and alligators
      • Tuataras
    • Birds
      • Passeriformes (perching birds)
      • Piciformes (cavity-nesters)
      • Ciconiiformes (wading birds)
      • Procellariiformes (marine birds)
      • Sphenisciformes (penguins)
      • Strigiformes (owls)
      • Struthioniformes (flightless birds)
      • Anseriformes (waterfowl)
    • Mammals
      • Monotremes
      • Marsupials
      • Placental mammals
        • Insectivore
        • Chiroptera
        • Primates
        • Xenarthra
        • Rodentia
        • Lagomorpha
        • Carnivora
        • Proboscidea
        • Sirenia
        • Perissodactyla
        • Artiodactyla
        • Cetacea