Class

A group of animals or plants of a category above an order and below a phylum. In the Linnaean system of classification, it was the highest category.

E.g. Birds are in the class Aves.

Example

 * Class: Aves
 * Order: Accipitriformes
 * Family: Pandionidae
 * Genus: ''Pandion
 * Species: ''Pandion haliaetus

Common name: Osprey

For the full taxonomy of the osprey, see Template:Taxonomy/Pandion_haliaetus.