Pilosa

See also: pilosa

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin pilosa ("hairy").

Proper noun

Pilosa

1. A taxonomic order within the class Mammalia – the anteaters, sloths, etc.

Hypernyms

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

Hyponyms

• (order): Folivora, Vermilingua - suborders
  • Bradypodidae, Megalonychidae, †Megatheriidae, †Mylodontidae, †Nothrotheriidae; Cyclopedidae, Myrmecophagidae - families

References

• Pilosa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pilosa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Pilosa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Pilosa in Mammal Species of the World^[1] at Bucknell.
• 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