Scientific name of Animals

In this post , we will learn about scientific name of animals and their significance.

Every species living or non living, is given a scientific name. Scientists have given these scientific names just to study these species systematically and avoid any types of confusion. Scientific names are the combination of two terms, the genus names and the species name.The process of these assigning scientific names to animals and plants are called ‘taxonomy.’ This process is developed by a Swedish scientist ‘Carolus Linnaeus’.

Lets take some good examples  for these scientific names. 

Cobra                    Elapidae naja
Cougar                  Fenis concolour
Crocodile              Crocodilia niloticus

Dog                      Cannis familiaris
Dolphin                Delphinidae delphis
Elephant               Proboscidea elephantidae

Frog                     Anura ranidae
Giraffe                 Giraffa camalopardalis
Giant Panda         Ailuropoda melanoleu

In future posts, we will learn about scientific names of trees , with more examples.