Kingdom: Fungi > Phylum: Basidiomycota > Class: Agaricomycetes > Order: Russulales Russulas are fairly common. Here, as with everything else, there are some changes but according to the Catalogue of Life (CoL) who use Kew’s Species Funorum database (2017), there are around 3000 species in this order in 13 families with a few not yet assigned a family. … Continue reading "Order Russulales"
Read MoreArchaea can live in the most extreme places are often classified according to the environments in which they live: Halophiles are salt-loving, Thermophiles live in extremely high temperatures, Psychrophiles live in extremely cold temperatures and Methanogens are anaerobic and produce methane gas. They can be found from the frozen Artics/Antarchtics to the boiling acidic springs … Continue reading "Kingdom Archaea (Archaebacteria)"
Read MoreBacteria are single‑celled prokaryotic organisms found in almost every environment on Earth. Although some species cause disease, most are harmless or beneficial, playing essential roles in nutrient cycling, decomposition, and many ecological processes. My own photographs of bacteria are limited, but this section is included to complete the overall classification framework. How Bacteria Are Classified … Continue reading "Kingdom Bacteria (Eubacteria)"
Read MoreKingdom: Fungi > Phylum: Basidiomycota This large and diverse phylum include mushrooms and toadstools, bracket fungi, puffballs, earthstars and stinkhorns, club and coral fungi, tooth fungi, jelly fungi, rusts and smuts and certain yeasts. Most of the common fungi we see belong either here or under Ascomycota. The classes and orders where I have photos … Continue reading "Phylum Basidiomycota"
Read MoreKingdom: Fungi > Phylum: Ascomycota The ascomycetes are the sac fungi, so named because of the reproductive spores contained in a special sac called ascus during the sexual stage. Many of the ascomycetes live on dead organic matter and many are plant pathogens, some are animal pathogens and a few are edible mushrooms, examples of … Continue reading "Phylum Ascomycota"
Read MoreThese are probably the most successful group of all animals with around one million named species making up 3/4 of all described animal species. It has been estimated that the actual number of insect species could be as much as 5 to 10 million. Insects are six-legged arthropods with bodies segmented into three parts, head, … Continue reading "Class Insecta"
Read MoreChordates are animals that at some stage in their life cycle possess a notochord, a dorsal nerve cord, gill slits, and a post‑anal tail. This phylum includes all vertebrates as well as two smaller groups: tunicates and lancelets. Chordates range from simple filter‑feeding marine animals to the most complex land vertebrates, including humans. Subdivision of … Continue reading "Phylum Chordata"
Read MoreKingdom: Animalia > Phylum: Arthropoda > Class: Insecta > Order: Lepidoptera > Superfamily: Papilionoidea Skippers(Hesperiidae) Gossamer-winged(Lycaenidae) Brush-footed(Nymphalidae) Swallowtails(Papilionidae) Whites & Sulphurs(Pieridae) Metalmarks(Riodinidae) Papilionoidea are the true butterflies. The skippers used to be in their own superfamily but are now usually included here. Many of the families have been further subdivided into subfamilies. Click the button … Continue reading "Superfamily Papilionoidea"
Read MoreFungi are widely distributed throughout our planet and are of great medical and environmental importance. The kingdom of Fungi include yeasts, rusts, smuts, mildews, moulds & mushrooms. Slime moulds, although often referred to as fungi, are in the kingdom Chromista. Classification of fungi below the level of the kingdom is controversial and there doesn’t seem … Continue reading "Kingdom Fungi"
Read MoreThese are a group of mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic organisms. Historically, any living thing not classified as animal was classified as a plant but now fungi and some algae have their own kingdoms. There are many ways of classifying the plants but they can be classified using the standard system and this is used by … Continue reading "Kingdom Plantae"
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