Fauna
Beasts of area
Fauna is the animal life of a particular region, habitat, or time period: the fauna of the Amazon rainforest, prehistoric fauna.
The term pairs with flora (plant life) in scientific and environmental contexts: The island's flora and fauna evolved in isolation.
Fauna can also refer to a catalog or study of such animals.
Multicellular mobile organisms
- creaturesAnimate beings, especially animals
- wildlifeUndomesticated natural organisms
- speciesFinest taxonomic rank
- biodiversityRange of life forms
ecosystem · habitat · conservation · mammals · birds · reptiles · amphibians · invertebrates
Native to one area
- indigenousOriginating in a region
- nativeOriginating from a place
- exoticStrikingly unusual, foreign-seeming
- tropicalOf hot, humid regions
arctic · marine · terrestrial · aquatic · rainforest · savanna · tundra · desert
Science of categorical arrangement
- zoologyStudy of fauna
- classificationSystematic grouping by traits
- genusTaxonomic rank above species
- phylumMajor classification rank
specimens · fieldwork · naturalist · catalog · survey · inventory · documentation · biodiversity
animals
Multicellular mobile organisms
- creaturesAnimate beings, especially animals
- wildlifeUndomesticated natural organisms
- speciesFinest taxonomic rank
biodiversity · ecosystem · habitat · conservation · mammals · birds · reptiles · amphibians · invertebrates · vertebrates
endemic
Native to one area
- indigenousOriginating in a region
- nativeOriginating from a place
- exoticStrikingly unusual, foreign-seeming
tropical · arctic · marine · terrestrial · aquatic · rainforest · savanna · tundra · desert · wetland
taxonomy
Science of categorical arrangement
- zoologyStudy of fauna
- classificationSystematic grouping by traits
- genusTaxonomic rank above species
phylum · specimens · fieldwork · naturalist · catalog · survey · inventory · documentation · biodiversity · census
creatures
Animate beings, especially animals
phoenix · dragon · griffin · unicorn · basilisk · leviathan · thunderbird · bunyip · yeti · chupacabra
Faunaflora
Plants of a region
vegetation · plant life · plants · plant kingdom · greenery
- flora and faunaAll living organisms
- local faunaArea's animal inhabitants
- local flora and faunaIndigenous plant and animal life
- native flora and faunaIndigenous plants and animals
- neotropical faunaSpecies newly in tropics
- faunal successionFossils occur in predictable order