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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he amde a classification system of animals
Charles Linneaus invented the actual classification system.
Modern taxonomy. It is the science of of classification of life. (Named after Carl Von Linneaus)
He developed the entire classification system for animals.
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 scientific name for a species in the Linnaean classification system consists of two words: the genus name and the species name.
Snakes are in the animal kingdom.