What is Animal Kingdom?
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More than
10–12 lac
types of animals are being found on our earth,
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and the animal kingdom was first established by Carolus Linnaeus in the
two-kingdom
system.
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They divided the organism into two-kingdom.
Kingdom Plantae
and
Kingdom Animalia
.
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Classification of Animal Kingdom -
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The animal kingdom was classified by scientist
George Quavier
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He divided the
animal kingdom
into
31 phyla
,
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out of which 10 are big phylum called Major Phylum, and 21 are small phylum called
Miner Phylum
.
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Out of these, we will read
11 phyla
, which will have 10 major phyla and 1 miner phylum.
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