Animalia　動物界（どうぶつかい）

■Level: kingdom

■Common name: animals

■Romanization: doubutsu kai

◆Description: Along with Plantae, one of the two original kingdoms assigned by Aristotle. Animals are mobile and have tissue specializiation. They are distinguished from plants, fungi and protozoa. 

◇Down:

• Metazoa subkingdom 後生動物亜界（こうせいどうぶつあかい）
• Chordata 脊索動物門（せきさくどうぶつもん） /sekisaku doubutsu mon/

◇Up: Eukaryota 真核生物（しんかくせいぶつ） /shinkaku seibutsu/

This entry was created by Benjamin Barrett.

Created 2000-08-10.