Afrotheria
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Afrotheria
- A taxonomic superorder within the subclass Eutheria – the elephants, aardvarks, afrosoricids, hyraxes, sirenians, and elephant shrews.
- 1998, Michael J. Stanhope et al., "Molecular Evidence for Multiple Origins of Insectivora and for a New Order of Endemic African Insectivore Mammals", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, volume 95, page 9971:
- Golden moles and tenrecs are therefore more closely related to aardvarks and elephants than they are to shrews, moles, and hedgehogs. Because this African clade is well supported both from a statistical and congruence perspective but is not currently recognized taxonomically, we propose the superordinal name Afrotheria.
- 2001, William J. Murphy et al., “Resolution of the Early Placental Mammal Radiation Using Bayesian Phylogenetics”, in Science, volume 294 (in English), page 2348:
- The basal split is between Afrotheria and other placentals, at about 103 million years, and may be accounted for by the separation of South America and Africa in the Cretaceous.
- 1998, Michael J. Stanhope et al., "Molecular Evidence for Multiple Origins of Insectivora and for a New Order of Endemic African Insectivore Mammals", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, volume 95, page 9971:
Hypernyms
[edit]- (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia – infraclass; Atlantogenata – magnorder
Hyponyms
[edit]- (superorder): Afrosoricida, Hyracoidea, Macroscelidea, Proboscidea, Sirenia, Tubulidentata, †Embrithopoda, †Desmostylia – orders
References
[edit]- Afrotheria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Afrotheria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Afrotheria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons