Classification

DOMAIN-Eukarya
The Southern Cassowary's cells contain a nucleus and the organism is multicellular.

KINGDOM- Animalia
Cassowaries are heterotropic, contain no cell wall, and no chloroplasts.

PHYLUM- Chordata
Cassowaries have an endo-skeleton.

CLASS- Aves
Cassowaries have semi-hallow bones, feathers, and beaks.

ORDER- Casuariiformes
This order contains four flightless birds of Austrailia/New Guinea (3 cassowaries, 1 emu)

FAMILY- Casuariidae
This organism is a cassowary and belongs to the Cauariidae family.

GENUS- Casuarius
Further narrowing the taxonomy of the Southern Cassowary to its lowest point.

SPECIES- C. casuarius

The scientific name of our organism in English has no definition because it has a semantic relationship.  Which means that it is only a scientific name.

Figure 1. The above diagram shows the classification of the Southern Cassowary from its domain through its class. The Southern Cassowary is in the domain Eukarya, the kingdom Animalia, the phylumChordata, and the class Aves. 

Figure 2.  This Taxonomy tree is is narrowed down from the Class Aves to the Superorder Palaeognathae.  The Superorder Palaeognathae contains most of the flightless birds, which are then split into the 6 orders you see above, the Casuariiformes was included to help better visual the taxonomy of the Southern Cassowary. The Casuariiformes contains two types of Families, one Emu (Dromaiidae) and one Cassowary (Casuariidae).

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