Carnivora
Translingual
Etymology
Latin carnĭvŏrus (“flesh-gulp”)
Hypernyms
- (order): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Deuterostomia - infrakingdom; Chordata - phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Tetrapoda - superclass; Mammalia - class; Theria - supercohort; Eutheria - infraclass[1]
Hyponyms
- (order with older system of suborders): Fissipedia - land carnivores, Pinnipedia - sea carnivores
- (order with newer system of suborders): Caniformia - dogs, seals, etc, Feliformia - cats, etc, †Miacoidea
- Ailuridae, Canidae, Eupleridae, Felidae, Herpestidae, Hyaenidae, Mephitidae, Mustelidae, Nandiniidae, Odobenidae, Otariidae, Phocidae, Prionodontidae, Procyonidae, Ursidae, Viverridae - families
Coordinate terms
- (order in Eutheria/Placentalia): Afrosoricida, Artiodactyla, Cetacea, Chiroptera, Cingulata, Dermoptera, Erinaceomorpha, Hyracoidea, Lagomorpha, Macroscelidea, Perissodactyla, Pholidota, Pilosa, Primates, Proboscidea, Rodentia, Scandentia, Sirenia, Soricomorpha, Tubulidentata[1]
References
- Carnivora at the Tree of Life Web Project
- Carnivora at World Register of Marine Species
- Carnivora in Mammal Species of the World at Bucknell.
- Carnivora on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Carnivora at Encyclopedia of Life
- Carnivora at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Carnivora at Fossilworks
- 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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521
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