User:Abacos

About Me
Studies: Degree in Physics, Master in Astrophysics, undergoing PhD in Bio-Physics

Location: Europe (Ireland, Switzerland, Northitaly)

Known languages: English, French, Lombard, Italian, Spanish, ancient Latin, some German, a little bit of Swahili

Hobbies: Snowboarding, cooking, Franco-Belgian bande-dessinée

Currently playing: Ultima 5: Warriors of Destiny

Scientific classification of Pokémon
From a taxonomical point of view, there are 76 Pokémon species, not 151.

What the Western translations of the videogames call "evolution" is actually growth from young to adult. Also, what is called "species" in the videogames is actually a life stage, e.g. young, cocoon or adult.

Of all the Pokémon species, the vast majority is inspired to real animals existing in nature, and they can be classified according to Lynnaeus method. Note that Lynnaeus lived one century before Darwin and the formulation of the scientific theory of evolution (Note also that "scientific theory" means "set of correlated theorems").

Scientific Pokédex
NOTE: Strictly speaking, "Invertebrata" is not an animal phylum, but a term of convenience including all phyla except for chordata. Here, it is used to group all the few animal pokémons that are neither Chordates/Vertebrates nor Arthropodes.