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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.

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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 TaigaDefinition: 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

Deer Mushroom

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

The Fly Agaric

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.

AscomycotaDefinition: a phylum of fungi characterized by a saclike structure

Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Class:Pezizomycetes

A photo of this Fungi

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

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

A 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

Paper 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​

An Aspen Leaf

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.


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

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.

Some Tortula moss

Class: Polypodiopsida
Definition: a class of plants that includes all the leptosporangiate ferns


Common Names: Alpine Lady Fern

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

The Limestone Oak Fern

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









Class: Lycopodiopsida

Stiff Clubmoss

Definition: a class of plants often loosely grouped as the fern allies
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

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





Division: TracheophytaDefinition: A Division of green plants with a vascular system.

The Musquito fern

Common Name: Carolina Mosquito Fern
Scientific Name: Azolla caroliniana
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Filicopsida
Order: Salviniales
Family: Azollaceae
Genus: Azolla
Species: caroliniana
Location: Rivers and lakes throughout U.S. and Canada.









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.

A Photo of the Martagon

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.

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.)
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



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



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






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


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


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.

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.

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.