Mammalia
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See also: mammalia
Translingual[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin mamma (“breast”), coined by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 as a replacement for his earlier class Quadrupedia.
Proper noun[edit]
Mammalia
- A taxonomic class within the superclass Tetrapoda – all mammals.
Hypernyms[edit]
- (class): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Tetrapoda - superclass[1]
- Tetrapoda - superclass; Reptiliomorpha, Amniota, Synapsidomorpha, Synapsida - clades; Pelycosauria - informal group; Eupelycosauria - clade; Therapsida - order; Theriodontia, Cynodontia, Mammaliaformes - clades
Hyponyms[edit]
- (class): Prototheria, Theria (Trechnotheria) - infraclasses;[1] Australosphenida - clade; †Symmetrodonta - extinct subclass
Coordinate terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
taxonomic class - mammals
References[edit]
Mammalia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Mammalia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Mammalia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Mammalia at the Tree of Life Web Project
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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