Some Important Scientific Names of Animals

Scientific Names of Animals

Some Important Scientific Names of Animals

Some Important Scientific Names of Animals for WBCS, PSC, RAIL etc competitive exams.

The world is filled with diversity and there are all kinds of plants, animals, and organisms present in our ecosystem who have quite different names being assigned. To avoid confusion because of multiple languages, scientists have come up with a common name listing and the process of providing the name is called the nomenclature. Binomial nomenclature is a system of scientifically naming plants and organisms using Latin grammatical forms. The name assigned in this manner is called a scientific name, binomial name, binomen.Each scientific name has two components, genus, and species. This system was formally introduced by Carl Linnaeus. He attempted to name every known animal and plant.

Scientific Names of Animals

Animals	Scientific Names
Arabian camel	Camelus dromedaries
Black rat	Rattus rattus
Bison	Bos gaurus
Black buck	Antelope cervicapra
Buffalow	Babalus bubalis
Crocodile	Crocodylus palustris
Cat	Felis domesticus
Cheetah	Acinonyx jubatus
Chinkara	Gazella bennettii
Dog	Canis lupus familiaris
Elephant	Elephas maximus
Fox	Vulpes vulpes
Gavial or Gharial	Gavialis gangeticus
Giraffe	Giraffa camelopardalis
Horse	Equus caballus
House wall Lizard	Hemidactylus flaviviridis
Hippopotamus	Hippopotamus amphibius
House mouse	Mus musculus
Kashmir stag or hangul	Cervus canadensis hanglu
Lion	Panthera leo
Leopard or panther	Panthera pardus
Nilgai	Boselaphus tragocamelus
Peacock	Pavo cristatus
Rhesus monkey or baudar	Macaca mulatta
Rabbit	Oryctolagus cuniculus
Rhinoceros	Rhinoceros unicornis
Siberian crane	Grus leucogeranus
Tiger	Panthera Tigris
Wild boar	Sus scrofa
Wolf	Canis lupus
Wild Ass	Equus africanus asinus
Zebra	Equus quagga