Mammalia

See also: mammalia

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin mamma (“breast”), coined by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 as a replacement for his earlier class Quadrupedia.

Proper noun

Mammalia

1. A taxonomic class within the superclass Tetrapoda – all mammals.

Hypernyms

• (class): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Tetrapoda - superclass
  • Tetrapoda - superclass; Reptiliomorpha, Amniota, Synapsidomorpha, Synapsida - clades; Pelycosauria - informal group; Eupelycosauria - clade; Therapsida - order; Theriodontia, Cynodontia, Mammaliaformes - clades

Hyponyms

• (class): Prototheria, Theria (Trechnotheria) - infraclasses; Australosphenida - clade; †Symmetrodonta - extinct subclass

Coordinate terms

• (class in Tetrapoda): Amphibia, Reptilia

Translations

taxonomic class - mammals

• Arabic: ثَدْيِيَّات (ar) pl (ṯadyiyyāt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哺乳綱／哺乳纲 (zh) (bǔrǔgāng)

• English: mammals pl
• Finnish: nisäkkäät (fi)
• Japanese: 哺乳綱 (ja) (Honyūkou)

References

• Mammalia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mammalia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Mammalia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Mammalia at the Tree of Life Web Project