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Species everyday group sorts species using the plain, everyday names people already know, such as bears, cats or birds, rather than a formal taxonomic rank. Wikipedia describes the giant panda as "a bear species endemic to China," a familiar everyday group despite its unusual bamboo diet. This dimension lets a visitor browse by the common names they already use.

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Reproductive Mode
Seed-Bearing 1
Everyday Group

Spiders (Araneae)

Everyday Group
88 entries

Passerines (Songbirds)

Everyday Group
86 entries

True Ferns (Polypodiopsida)

Everyday Group
82 entries

Other Bony Fish

Everyday Group
66 entries

Salamanders And Newts (Caudata)

Everyday Group
66 entries

Gastropods (Snails And Slugs)

Everyday Group
64 entries

Acrocarpous Mosses (Upright Growth)

Everyday Group
59 entries

Butterflies And Moths (Lepidoptera)

Everyday Group
55 entries

Cichlids, Anemonefish And Damselfish

Everyday Group
54 entries

Crabs

Everyday Group
51 entries

Pines (Pinaceae)

Everyday Group
51 entries

Carnations And Cacti (Caryophyllales)

Everyday Group
50 entries

Gilled Mushrooms (Agarics)

Everyday Group
49 entries

Other Birds

Everyday Group
49 entries

Sharks, Rays And Chimaeras

Everyday Group
45 entries

Araucarias And Kauris (Araucariaceae)

Everyday Group
42 entries

Beetles (Coleoptera)

Everyday Group
42 entries

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Everyday Group
40 entries

Other Flowering Plant Orders

Everyday Group
39 entries

Turtles And Tortoises (Testudines)

Everyday Group
39 entries

Perch-Like Fishes (Perciformes)

Everyday Group
38 entries

Penguins And Seabirds

Everyday Group
37 entries

Shorebirds (Waders)

Everyday Group
37 entries

Cypresses And Junipers (Cupressaceae)

Everyday Group
36 entries

Cephalopods (Octopus, Squid, Nautilus, Cuttlefish)

Everyday Group
35 entries

Lilies And Orchids (Liliales/Asparagales)

Everyday Group
34 entries

Snakes (Serpentes)

Everyday Group
34 entries

Asters And Composites (Asterales)

Everyday Group
33 entries

Mints, Nightshades And Allies (Lamiales/Solanales)

Everyday Group
33 entries

Lizards (Lacertilia)

Everyday Group
32 entries

Other Frogs And Toads (Anura)

Everyday Group
31 entries

True Toads (Bufonidae)

Everyday Group
31 entries

Bees, Wasps And Ants (Hymenoptera)

Everyday Group
30 entries

Gulls, Terns And Auks

Everyday Group
30 entries

Shrimp And Prawns

Everyday Group
28 entries

Bivalves (Clams, Mussels, Oysters)

Everyday Group
27 entries

Lobsters And Crayfish

Everyday Group
27 entries

Legumes (Fabales)

Everyday Group
26 entries

Geckos

Everyday Group
25 entries

Roses And Relatives (Rosales)

Everyday Group
24 entries

Spurges And Willows (Malpighiales)

Everyday Group
24 entries

Flies (Diptera)

Everyday Group
22 entries

Horsetails (Equisetum)

Everyday Group
22 entries

Ticks And Mites (Acari)

Everyday Group
22 entries

True Bugs (Hemiptera)

Everyday Group
22 entries

Pathogenic And Parasitic Fungi (Human/Animal)

Everyday Group
20 entries

Rusts, Smuts And Plant Pathogens

Everyday Group
20 entries

Waterfowl

Everyday Group
20 entries

Grasses And Sedges (Poales)

Everyday Group
18 entries

Pleurocarpous Mosses (Mat-Forming)

Everyday Group
18 entries

Ancient And Relict Fish (Coelacanth, Lungfish)

Everyday Group
17 entries

Lichens

Everyday Group
17 entries

Herons, Egrets And Allies

Everyday Group
16 entries

Salmon And Trout (Salmoniformes)

Everyday Group
16 entries

Heaths, Camellias And Primroses (Ericales)

Everyday Group
14 entries

Other Insects

Everyday Group
14 entries

Yeasts, Molds And Aspergilli

Everyday Group
14 entries

Citrus And Mahogany Relatives (Sapindales)

Everyday Group
13 entries

Leafy Liverworts

Everyday Group
13 entries

Scorpions

Everyday Group
13 entries

Peat Mosses (Sphagnum)

Everyday Group
12 entries

Polypores And Bracket Fungi

Everyday Group
12 entries

Thalloid Liverworts

Everyday Group
12 entries

Crocodilians

Everyday Group
11 entries

Cycads (Cycadales)

Everyday Group
11 entries

Isopods (Woodlice)

Everyday Group
11 entries

Parrots

Everyday Group
11 entries

Parsleys And Ivies (Apiales)

Everyday Group
11 entries

Pigeons And Doves

Everyday Group
11 entries

Catfish (Siluriformes)

Everyday Group
10 entries

Coffees, Dogbanes And Milkweeds (Gentianales)

Everyday Group
10 entries

Mallows, Cottons And Baobabs (Malvales)

Everyday Group
10 entries

Other Fungi

Everyday Group
10 entries

Poison Dart Frogs (Dendrobatidae)

Everyday Group
10 entries

Tree Frogs (Hylidae)

Everyday Group
10 entries

Carp And Minnows (Cypriniformes)

Everyday Group
9 entries

Eels (Anguilliformes)

Everyday Group
9 entries

Extinct Reptiles And Dinosaurs

Everyday Group
9 entries

Yews (Taxaceae)

Everyday Group
9 entries

Buttercups And Relatives (Ranunculales)

Everyday Group
8 entries

Cabbages And Mustards (Brassicales)

Everyday Group
8 entries

Cuckoos

Everyday Group
8 entries

Cup Fungi And Morels

Everyday Group
8 entries

Grasshoppers And Crickets (Orthoptera)

Everyday Group
8 entries

Kingfishers And Allies

Everyday Group
8 entries

Owls

Everyday Group
8 entries

Palms, Bananas And Gingers (Arecales/Zingiberales)

Everyday Group
8 entries

Whip Spiders And Whip Scorpions

Everyday Group
8 entries

Barnacles (Cirripedia)

Everyday Group
7 entries

Mantises (Mantodea)

Everyday Group
7 entries

Podocarps (Podocarpaceae)

Everyday Group
7 entries

Tree Ferns

Everyday Group
7 entries

Branchiopods (Water Fleas, Fairy Shrimp)

Everyday Group
6 entries

Caecilians (Gymnophiona)

Everyday Group
6 entries

Dragonflies And Damselflies (Odonata)

Everyday Group
6 entries

Harvestmen (Opiliones)

Everyday Group
6 entries

Lacewings, Antlions And Allies (Neuroptera And Kin)

Everyday Group
6 entries

Woodpeckers

Everyday Group
6 entries

Clubmosses (Lycopodiaceae)

Everyday Group
5 entries

Cockroaches And Termites (Blattodea)

Everyday Group
5 entries

Flatfish (Pleuronectiformes)

Everyday Group
5 entries

Gnetophytes (Gnetales)

Everyday Group
5 entries

Hornworts

Everyday Group
5 entries

Monitor Lizards

Everyday Group
5 entries

Ratites And Flightless Birds

Everyday Group
5 entries

Water Ferns (Aquatic Ferns)

Everyday Group
5 entries

Chameleons

Everyday Group
4 entries

Other Crustaceans

Everyday Group
4 entries

Spikemosses (Selaginella)

Everyday Group
4 entries

Amphipods

Everyday Group
3 entries

Chitons (Polyplacophora)

Everyday Group
3 entries

Copepods

Everyday Group
3 entries

Fleas And Lice

Everyday Group
3 entries

Herrings And Anchovies (Clupeiformes)

Everyday Group
3 entries

Myrtles And Eucalypts (Myrtales)

Everyday Group
3 entries

Other Mollusks

Everyday Group
3 entries

Pseudoscorpions

Everyday Group
3 entries

Puffballs And Earthstars

Everyday Group
3 entries

Extinct And Fossil Amphibians

Everyday Group
2 entries

Other Arachnids

Everyday Group
2 entries

Ginkgo (Ginkgoales)

Everyday Group
1 entry

Other Fern Allies

Everyday Group
1 entry

Other Gymnosperms

Everyday Group
1 entry

True Frogs (Ranidae)

Everyday Group
1 entry

Tuatara (Rhynchocephalia)

Everyday Group
1 entry

Whisk Ferns (Psilotum)

Everyday Group
1 entry
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Flowering plant
WikipediaFlowering plant, lead section, etymology sentence
Quote, Flowering plant, lead section, etymology sentence
the seeds are enclosed within a fruit
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