1.5 Taxonomic hierarchy · Part 3

Example, the National Bird (Indian Peafowl) – Pavo cristatus, the National Animal tiger as Panther a tigris, and the Tamil Nadu State bird is the common Emerald dove Chalcophaps indica . Biological nomenclature derives from the binomial (or binominal) nomenclature that was originally codified in the works of Linnaeus, Species Plantarum ( ) and Systema Naturae , 10th Edition ( ). These publications are the starting points for the modern biological nomenclature in most groups of plants and animals. If you find an animal with four legs, with two eyes, paired ear pinna, covered with fur, possessing mammary gland , which class will you position it? How will you give a binomial name, if you are the first person to discover and report that animal. in the Kingdom Animalia and it is the top most of the taxonomic hierarchy.