class Mammalia


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Noun1.class Mammalia - warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the femaleclass Mammalia - warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female
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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While the Lutrinae subfamily of the Mustelidae family in the Carnivora order of class Mammalia is represented by 6 genera and 13 species all over the world (Wilson and Reeder 2005), it is represented by the one species, Lutra lutra, in Turkey (Kurtonur et al.
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They are rodents belonging to the class Mammalia, Order Rodentia (Cooper & Schiller, 1975) and they are reared for purposes such as research, food and companionship (Valim et al., 2004).
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Yet even though milk is (or was) produced by all 6,495 members of the class Mammalia, scientists rarely study the substance except when it comes from cows, goats and humans.
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He belongs to class Mammalia, phylum Chordata, the highest rank in the animal kingdom.
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Baluchitherium, extinct primitive rhinoceros belonging to the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebra, class Mammalia, order Perissodactyla, family Rhinocerotidae and genus Baluchitherium of the Oligocene (about 20 to 30 million years ago) age.
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Procyon cancrivorus (crab-eating raccoon) belongs to the phylum Chordata, class Mammalia, order Carnivora, and grouped in the Procyonidae family.
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