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Kindom Moneran A Moneran is a single-celled organism that does not have a nucleus.

//Nostoc azollae// is the scientific name for this Moneran. It can be found in freshwater in the in the Taiga. It is a Cocci shaped Moneran.



//Calothrix braunii// is a member of the kingdom Moneran. It can be found on the high tide zone of rivers or lakes in the Taiga region. Also it's shape is Cocci.

Kindom Protista A Protist is a single or multi-celled organism that has a nucleus. Some produce their own food and some hunt. ​ A Protazoan from Taiga Definition: Any of a large group of single-celled, usually microscopic organisms, such as amoebas, ciliates, flagellates, and sporozoans. Scientific Name: //Phalansterium solitarium// Location: It is a soil protazoan found in the Tagia.

​ An Algae from Taiga Definition: A plant-like, single celled, organisms with cell walls and chlorophyll. Scientific Name: //Agardhiella tenera// Location: Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from water level.

Kingdom Fungi A Fungi is a multi-celled organism that has no chlorophyll and asorbs nutrients.

Basidiomycota Definition: The basidiomycetes considered to belong to the phylum Basidiomycota of the kingdom Fungi.

Kingdom: //Fungi// Phylum: //Basidiomycota// Class: //Basidiomycetes// Order: //Agaricales// Family: //Pluteaceae// Genus: //Pluteus// Species: //cervinus// Common name: Deer Mushroom Scientific name: //Pluteus cervinus// Location: It is found on rotten logs, roots and tree stumps.

Definition: The basidiomycetes considered to belong to the phylum Basidiomycota of the kingdom Fungi.

Kingdom: //Fungi// Phylum: //Basidiomycota// Class: //Agaricomycetes// Order: //Agaricales// Family://Pluteaceae// Genus: //Amanita// Species: //muscaria// Common name: Fly Agaric Scientific name: //Amanita muscaria// Location: This fungi is poisonus and has a religous influence on people of the Siberia taiga.

Glomeromycota Definition: One of seven currently recognized phylum with the Kindom Fungi.

Kingdom: //Fungi// Phylum: //Glomeromycota// Class: //Glomeromycetes// Order: //Glomerales// Family: //Glomeraceae// Genus: //Glomus// Species: //cerebriforme// Common name: Cannot be found Scientific name: //Glomus cerebriforme// Location: It can be found on plants in Canada.

Ascomycota Definition: a phylum of fungi characterized by a saclike structure

Kingdom: Fungi Phylum: Ascomycota Class:Pezizomycetes Order:Pezizales Family:Helvellaceae Genus:Helvella Species:crispa

The Helvella crispa can be found throughout Europe and North America

Kindom Plantae​ Definition: Multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food via photosynthesis. Class: Pinopsida Definiton: mostly coniferous: in some systems classified as a class Pinopsida

Common Name: Black Spruce Scientific Name: Picea mariana Kingdom: //Plantae// Phylum: //Tracheophyta// Class: //Pinopsida// Order: //Pinales// Family: //Pinaceae// Genus: //Picea// Species: //mariana// Location: Can be found all throughout the Taiga

Scientific Name: //Pinus banksiana// Common Name: Jack Pine Kingdom: //Plantae// Phylum: //Tracheophyta// Class: //Pinopsida// Order: //Pinales// Family: //Pinaceae// Genus: //Pinus// Species: //banksiana// Location: Northern U.S. and throghout Canada

Class: Magnoliopsida

Defintion: comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves

Common Names: Paper Birch, White Birch, Canoe Birch, Silver Birch Scientific Name: //Betula papyrifera// Kingdom: //Plantae// Phylum: //Tracheophyta// Class: //Magnoliopsida// Order: //Corylales// Family: //Betulaceae// Genus: //Betula// Species: papyrifera  Location: Paper birch grows in clusters in the taiga of Canada as far north as the tundra.

Common Name: Big Tooth Aspen​ Scientific Name: //Populus grandidentata // Kingdom://Plantae// Phylum: //Tracheophyta// Class: //Magnoliopsida// Order://Salicales// Family://Salicaceae// Genus://Populus// Species: //grandidentata// Location: Sandy upland soils also flood plains of streams.

<span style="background-color: #003cff; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Phylum: Bryophyta Definition: A division of nonflowering plants characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots and having little or no organized vascular tissue

Common Name: Low Sphagnum Scientific Name: //Sphagnum compactum// Kingdom: //Plantae// Phylum: //Bryophyta// Class: //Sphagnopsida// Order: //Sphagnales// Family: //Noctuoidea// Genus: //Sphagnum// Species: //compactum// Location: Found on shallow, acid peat in open situations on the edge of wet heaths and grazed damp grassland, often where there has been fire.

Common Name: Tortula Moss Scientific Name: //Tortula muralis// Kingdom: //Plantae// Phylum: //Bryophyta// Class: //Bryopsida// Order: //Pottiales// Family://Pottiaceae// Genus: //Tortula// Species: //muralis// Location: Rocks, walls, bricks; found in low to medium elevations.



<span style="background-color: #003cff; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Class: Polypodiopsida Definition: a class of plants that includes all the leptosporangiate ferns

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Common Names: Alpine Lady Fern Scientific Name: //Athyrium distentifolium// Kingdom: //Plantae// Phylum: //Tracheophyta// Class: //Polypodiopsida// Order: //Polypodiales// Family: //Dryopteridaceae// Genus: //Athyrium// Species: //distentifolium// Location: It can be found mostly near the west and east end of the Taiga

Common Name: Limestone Oak Fern <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kingdom: //Plantae// Phylum: //Tracheophyta// Class: //Polypodiopsida// Order: //Polypodiales// Family: //Dryopteridaceae// Genus: //Gymnocarpium// Species: //robertainum// Location: Lime Stone pavement, cliffs, and swamps. Can be found in Finnish Taiga

<span style="background-color: #003cff; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Class: Lycopodiopsida Definition: a class of plants often loosely grouped as the fern allies <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 105%; text-align: left;">Common Name: Stiff Clubmoss Scientific Name: //Lycopodmium annotinum// Kingdom: //Plantae// Phylum: //Lycopodiophyta// Class: Lycopodiopsida Order: //Lycopodiales// Family: //Lycopodiceae// Genus: //Lycopodium// Species: //Annotinum// Location: Mostly in Ontario

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<span style="background-color: #003cff; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Class: Equisetopsida Definition: a class of plants with a fossil record going back to the Devonian

Common Name: Wood Horsetail Scientific Name: //Equisetum sylcaticum// Kingdom: //Plantae// Phylum: //Equisetophyta// Class: //Equisetopsida// Order: //Equestales// Family: //Equisetaceae// Genus: //Equisetum// Species: //sylcaticum// Location: Usually lives in moist open woods, bogs, swamps, prairies, meadows, stream banks

<span style="background-color: #0003ff; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Division: Tracheophyta Definition: A Division of green plants with a vascular system. Common Name: Carolina Mosquito Fern Scientific Name: //Azolla caroliniana// <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font: 12px Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,Tahoma,sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; webkitborderhorizontalspacing: 0px; webkitborderverticalspacing: 0px; webkittextdecorationsineffect: none; webkittextsizeadjust: auto; webkittextstrokewidth: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Kingdom: //Plantae// Phylum: //Tracheophyta// Class: //Filicopsida// Order: <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font: 12px Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,Tahoma,sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; webkitborderhorizontalspacing: 0px; webkitborderverticalspacing: 0px; webkittextdecorationsineffect: none; webkittextsizeadjust: auto; webkittextstrokewidth: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">//Salviniales// Family: <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font: 12px Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,Tahoma,sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; webkitborderhorizontalspacing: 0px; webkitborderverticalspacing: 0px; webkittextdecorationsineffect: none; webkittextsizeadjust: auto; webkittextstrokewidth: 0px; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">//Azollaceae// Genus: //Azolla// Species: //caroliniana// Location: Rivers and lakes throughout U.S. and Canada.

<span style="background-color: #0003ff; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Class: Liliopsida Definition: Seed plants that produce with a single primary embryo and parallel-veined leaves: includes grasses and lilies and palms and orchids. Common Name: Martagon or Turk's cap lily Scientific Name: //Lilium martagon// Kingdom: //Plantae// Phylum: //Tracheophyta// Class: //Liliopsida// Order: //Lilales// Family: //Liliaceae// Genus: //Lilium// Species: //martagon// Location: Mainly south of the Taiga, this Eastern Hemisphere Lily is in the Asian Taiga.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Taiga Animals Definition: A Multi-celled organism that digests their food inside their body. They are divided into two groups which are vertebrates and invertebrates.

<span style="background-color: #05a823; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Class: Aves

Definition: (ornithology) the class of birds

Common Name: Steller's Jay Kingdom: //Animalia// Phylum: //Chordata// Class: //Aves// Order: //Passeriformes// Family://Corvidae// Genus: //Cyanocitta// Species: //stelleri// Scientific name: //Cyanocitta stelleri// Location: virtually all of western half of North America.

Common Name: Pileated Woodpecker

Scientific Name: //Dryocopus pileatus// Kingdom: //Animalia// Phylum: //Chordata// Class: //Aves// Order: //Piciformes// Family: //Picidae// Genus: //Dryocopus// Species: //pileatus// Location: Found throughout the U.S. and Canada. (Mainly on the east of the U.S.) <span style="background-color: #05a823; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Phylum: Annelida Definition: A phylum of coelomate invertabrates

Common Names: Shell Binder Worm Scientific Name: //Thelepus crispus// Kingdom: //Animalia// Phylum: //Annelida// Class: //Polychaeta// Order: //Canalipalpata// Family: //Terebellidae// Genus: //Thelepus// Species: //crispus// Location: Can be found in mud near stones

<span style="background-color: #05a823; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Class: Osteichthyes Definition: A class of fish having a skeleton composed of bone in addition to cartilage

Common Name: Giant Salmon Carp Scientific Name: //Aaptosyax grypus// Kingdom: //Animalia// Phylum: //Chordata// Class: //Osteichthyes// Order: //Cypriniformes// Family: //Cyprinidae// Genus: //Aaptosyax// Species: //grypus// Location: Can be found all over the Taiga in freshwater lakes or rivers

<span style="background-color: #05a823; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Class: Mammalia Definition: Warm-blooded vertebrates

Common Name: Kermode Black Bear Scientific Name: //Ursus americanus kermodei// Kingdom: //Animalia// Phylum: //Chordata// Class: //Mammalia// Order: //Carnivora// Family: //Ursidae// Genus: //Ursus// Species: //americanus// Subspecies: //kermodei// Location: U.S. Territories and Canada

<span style="background-color: #05a823; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Class: Amphibia Definition: The class comprising the amphibians

Scientific Name: //Rana sylvatica// Common Name: Wood Frog Kingdom: //Animalia// Phylum: //Chordata// Class: //Amphibia// Order: //Anura// Family: //Ranidae// Genus: //Rana// Species: //sylvatica// Location: Can be found in moist woods  some  distance  from water. It hibernates during the winter under leaf litter  or in rotting  logs. It prefers moist woods that have seeps , small  streams  , or  standing water  during the winter and early  spring

<span style="background-color: #05a823; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Phylum: Anthropoda Definition: Any invertebrate of the phylum Arthropoda, having a segmented body, jointed limbs, and usually a chitinous shell that undergoes moltings, including the insects, spiders and other arachnids, crustaceans, and myriapods

Common Name: Spruce Beetle Scientific Name: //Dendroctonus rufipennis// Kingdom: //Animalia// Phylum: //Arthropoda// Class: //Insecta// Order: //Coleoptera// Family: //Curculionidae// Genus: //Dendroctonus// Species: //rufipennis// Location: Can be found in coniforous forests in Alaska

Common Name: Northern Scorpion Scientific Name: //Paruroctonus boreus// Kingdom: //Animalia// Phylum: //Arthropoda// Class: //Scorpionida// Order: //Scorpiones// Family: //Vaejovidae// Genus: //Paruroctonus// Species: //boreus// Location: This is northern most scorpion in the world that can be found in Alberta and Saskatchwan. <span style="background-color: #05a823; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Phylum: Nematoda Definition: Worms including species parasitic in humans and plants as well as free-living nonparasitic species in soil or water. It includes the intestinal roundworms and filarial roundworms

Scientific Name: T//richinella murrelli// Common Name: Cannot be found Kingdom: //Animalia// //Phylum:// //Nematoda// //Class:// //Adenophorea// //Order:// //Trichocephalida// //Family:// //Trichinellidae// //Genus:// //Trichinella// //Species: murrelli// Scientific Name: T//richinella murrelli// Location: Can be found just North of Lake Superior

<span style="background-color: #05a823; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Phylum: Cnidaria Common Name: Fresh water Jellyfish Scientific Name: //Craspedacusta sowerbyi// Kingdom: //Animalia// Phylum: //Cnidaria// Class: //Hydrozoa// Order: //Limnomedusae// Family: //Olindiidae// Genus://Craspedacusta// Species: //sowerbyi// Location: Can be found worldwide and has been spotted in almost all of Canada and the U.S.

<span style="background-color: #008000; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Phylum: Mollusca Definition:a phylum containing gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; and chitons Common Name:Banff Springs snail Scientific Name://Physella johnsoni// Kingdom: //Animalia// Phylum: //Mollusca// Class: //Gastropoda// Order: //Basommatophora// Family: //Palaemonoidea// Genus: //Physella// Species: //johnsoni// Location: This endangered species has only been found in the hot springs of Sulphur Mountain of Banff National Park, in Alberta, Canada.

<span style="background-color: #008000; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Class: Reptilia Definition: class of cold-blooded air-breathing vertebrae Common Name: Eastern Hognosed Snake Scientific Name: //Heterodon platirhinos// Kingdom: //Animalia// Phylum: //Chordata// Class: //Reptilia// Order: //Squamata// Family: //Colubridae// Genus://Heterodon// Species://platirhinos// Location: This snake lives throughout North America.