Question

Kingdom animalia includes a major phylum known as chordata, which includes the sub-phylum vertebrata. This includes lions like the ones shown above. The remaining taxonomic levels for lions is:

Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae, Panthera, leo.

For the lion, Felidae is the name given to which taxonomic level?
A) Class
B) Family
C) Genus
D) Order

Answer 1

The answer is "B" ; family

Step-by-step explanation:

Felidae is a family and comes after the Class (mammalia) and Order (carnivora). The ending -dae, usually indicates family.

Answer 2

Felidae is the name given to family taxonomic level.

Step-by-step explanation:

Among all of the hierarchical levels of taxonomy, Family is the eighth in the taxonomy of Linnaean. It lies between the levels of genus and order. The term ‘familia’ is proposed by Pierre Morgan. The use of family is for palaeontological, evolutionary and genetic study because of the stability of this level.

Families are named by the use of suffixes by different international institutions. The names of animal of family in the zoological part is finished with the ‘-idea’ suffix. So, the lion Felidae definitely belongs to the family taxonomy.