There are many genus and species of snakes, and in North America there are five entire families. These are colubrids (rat snakes, king snakes, garter snakes), elapids (coral snakes), viperids, leptotyphlopids (rare slender, blind snakes), and boids (pythons).
All snakes belong to the order squamata, which are of the class reptilia, phylum chordates, in the animal kingdom.
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata (unranked) Amniota Class: Reptilia
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Modern taxonomy. It is the science of of classification of life. (Named after Carl Von Linneaus)
Charles Linneaus invented the actual classification system.
He developed the entire classification system for animals.
Carolus Linneaus
It used physical characteristics to group species.
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Taxonomy was discover by Carl Linneaus. Taxonomy is the classification of all living organisms.
All domestic dogs are classified as Canis lupus familiaris.
The classification system is named after Carl Linneaus because he was the one to come up with the idea of classifying animals and other living things.