Discussion
The scientific names of animals from sub-genera and above are :
Answer: A
Names from subgenera upwards are uninomial.
Under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, every name of a taxon above the species group (subgenus, genus, family, order, class and so on) is a single word: Felis, Felidae, Carnivora, Mammalia. A subgeneric name is also one word, written in brackets between the genus and the species name.
Binomial names (genus plus specific epithet) are used only for species, and trinomials (adding a subspecific name, as in Panthera tigris tigris) only for subspecies. Polynomials, descriptive Latin phrases, were the pre-Linnaean practice that binomial nomenclature replaced.
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