Perissodactyla

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek περισσός (perissós, “uneven”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “a finger, toe”).

Proper noun

Perissodactyla

1. A taxonomic order within the class Mammalia – odd-toed ungulates.

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria - subclass; Eutheria - infraclass

Hyponyms

• (order): Equidae (horses etc), Tapiridae (tapirs), Rhinocerotidae (rhinoceroses) - extant families
  • †Anchilophidae, †Brontotheriidae, †Chalicotheriidae, †Deperetellidae, †Eomoropidae, †Helaletidae, †Hyracodontidae, †Isectolophidae, †Lophialetidae, †Lophiodontidae, †Palaeotheriidae - extinct families; †Uintaceras - extinct genera incertae sedis

Translations

taxonomic order

• German: Unpaarhufer (de) m
• Swahili: Wanyama wenye kwato witiri

References

• 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: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248