[[Fasciculus:Linnaeus - Regnum Animale (1735).png|thumb|upright=1.755|Tabula [[regnum (taxinomia)|regni]] animalium in prima editione ''Systematis Naturae'' (1735) dati.]]
'''Animalia paradoxa'''<ref name="sn4">[http://books.google.ca/books?id=2nsZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA102 ''Systematis Naturae'' editio quarta (1744)].</ref> sunt [[animal]]ia [[mythologia|mythica]], [[magiasupernaturalis|magica]], vel alioquin suspecta quae in prioribus editiones ''[[Systema Naturae|Systematis Naturae]],'' [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaei]] operis fecundi, capitulo "Paradoxa" inscribuntur.<!-- (confer [[cryptida]]).--> Quod [[animal legendarium|animalia legendaria]] in [[bestiarium|bestiariis]] [[medium aevum|mediaevalibus]] inventa cum animalibus ab [[explorator]]ibus relatis perscribit, et cur a ''Systemate Naturae'' excluduntur exponit. Secundum Gunnar Broberg, [[rerum gestarum scriptor]] [[Suecia|Suecicum]], Linnaeus in animo habuit explicationem [[natura]]lem offerre et [[superstitio]]nem interrogare.<ref>Tore Frängsmyr, Sten Lindroth, Gunnar Eriksson, et Gunnar Broberg, ''Linnaeus, the man and his work'' (Berkeleiae et Angelopoli: University of California Press, 1983, ISBN 0-7112-1841-2), 176–177.</ref> Animalia paradoxa ex editione sexta (1748) deleta sunt.<ref>Sandra Knapp (2002), "Fact and fantasy," ''Nature'' 415(6871):479, doi:10.1038/415479a.<!--Also available on http://www.scribd.com/doc/36109515/NPG-nature-vol-415-Issue-6871-Jan Scribd-->.</ref><!--PLUS IN EN:-->
