Perissodactyla
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Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek περισσός (perissós, “uneven”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “a finger, toe”).
Proper noun
[edit]Perissodactyla
- A taxonomic order within the class Mammalia – odd-toed ungulates.
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; Boreoeutheria – magnorder; Laurasiatheria – superoder; Euungulata – mirorder
Hyponyms
[edit]- (order): Equidae (horses, zebras, and asses), Rhinocerotidae (rhinoceroses), Tapiridae (tapirs) – extant families
- †Anchilophidae, †Brontotheriidae, †Chalicotheriidae, †Deperetellidae, †Eomoropidae, †Helaletidae, †Hyracodontidae, †Isectolophidae, †Lophialetidae, †Lophiodontidae, †Palaeotheriidae – extinct families; †Uintaceras – extinct genera incertae sedis
Translations
[edit]taxonomic order
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References
[edit]- Perissodactyla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Perissodactyla on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Perissodactyla on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Perissodactyla in Mammal Species of the World[1] at Bucknell.
- Perissodactyla at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Perissodactyla at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Perissodactyla at Paleobiology Database
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI