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So the process of naming an animal isn't as hard as it sounds. First of all, you need to determine what kind of animal it is. Most new found animals will fit into a genus (remember Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?) and from there it's easy. However, sometimes we find animals that do not fit into one of the classification levels for that kind of animal. For instance, we might find some kind of mammal that doesn't fit into any of the current mammal classes, so we have to create a new one. That's harder. But once you get it into a genus, then you can choose the species name. That's usually not hard. All you do is choose a word that describes that creature in Latin. For instance, auratusis common because it means gold in Latin, and many golden creatures have this for their species name after their genus name. So Dendrobates auratus belongs to the Dendrobates genus and is gold. Many species can have the same species name, but if they have the same species name, they can't have the same genus name and vice-versa.

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