Mammalia


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Noun1.Mammalia - warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the femaleMammalia - warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female
class Mammalia
young mammal - any immature mammal
Craniata, subphylum Craniata, subphylum Vertebrata, Vertebrata - fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals
mammal, mammalian - any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk
Prototheria, subclass Prototheria - echidnas; platypus
Pantotheria, subclass Pantotheria - generalized extinct mammals widespread during the Jurassic; commonly conceded to be ancestral to marsupial and placental mammals
Metatheria, subclass Metatheria - pouched animals
Eutheria, subclass Eutheria - all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
Ungulata - in former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising all hoofed mammals; now divided into the orders Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) and Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates)
Unguiculata - in former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising mammals with nails or claws; distinguished from hoofed mammals and cetaceans
class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
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The Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle includes an account of the Fossil Mammalia, by Professor Owen; of the Living Mammalia, by Mr.
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With respect to this latter case of correlation, I think it can hardly be accidental, that if we pick out the two orders of mammalia which are most abnormal in their dermal coverings, viz.
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The gigantic stature, the prodigious strength and activity, the wild ferocity, and the imitative propensities of these mammalia are sufficiently well known to all.
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New fossils of Suidae (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) from the Hasnot Late Miocene, northern Pakistan.
Short Communication - NEW FOSSILS OF SUIDAE (MAMMALIA) FROM DHOK PATHAN FORMATION OF SIWALIKS, PUNJAB, PAKISTAN
Variation in the mandible shape in Thrichomys apereoides (Mammalia: Rodentia): Geometric analysis of a complex morphological structure.
Geometric Morphometry of Skulls Characteristics of Nine Species of Eothenomys
They cover species concepts and species delimitation in mammals; chromosomes and speciation in mammals; taxonomy, trees, and truth in historical mammalogy; mammalian embryology and organogenesis; non-mammalian synapsids: the deep roots of the mammalian family tree; Mesozoic mammals: early mammalian diversity and eco-morphological adaptations; diversity and relationships within crown Mammalia; and mammal extinction risk and conservation: patterns, threats and management.
Mammalian Evolution, Diversity and Systematics
Through our literature review, we found 572 unique scientific records of individuals displaying leucism among the chordate classes Chondrichthyes, Actinopterygii, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves, and Mammalia (Fig.
A Leucisitic Fisher (Pekania pennanti) and the Prevalence of Leucism in Wild Carnivores
He belongs to class Mammalia, phylum Chordata, the highest rank in the animal kingdom.
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2005: Phylogeographic footprints of the Strait of Gibraltar and Quaternary climatic fluctuations in the western Mediterranean: a case study with the greater white-toothed shrew Crocidura russula (Mammalia: Soricidae).
PETER VOGEL, 1942-2015
Mammalia, Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae, Platyrrhinus recifinus (O.
AMPLIACAO DE DISTRIBUICAO DE Eumops patagonicus (CHIROPTERA: MOLOSSIDAE) E PRIMEIRO REGISTRO EM AMBIENTE DE RESTINGA NA COSTA LESTE DO BRASIL

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