Artiodactyla

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄρτιος (ártios, “even”) +‎ Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “toe”). Coined by English biologist and paleontologist Richard Owen in 1848.

Proper noun

Artiodactyla

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

Usage notes

• Historically, Cetacea (whales, etc.) were treated as a separate order. It is now believed that whales and their closest relatives evolved from land-dwelling even-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/Placentalia – infraclass; Boreoeutheria – magnorder; Laurasiatheria – superorder; Scrotifera – clade; Ferungulata – grandorder; Euungulata – mirorder

Hyponyms

• (order): Ruminantia, Suina, Tylopoda, Whippomorpha – suborders
  • Antilocapridae (pronghorns), Balaenidae (bowheads and right whales), Balaenopteridae (rorquals), Bovidae (cattle, sheep, goats, antelopes, and buffaloes), Camelidae (camels, llamas, vicuñas, guanacos, and alpacas), Cervidae (deer), Cetotheriidae (pygmy right whales), Delphinidae (oceanic dolphins), Giraffidae (giraffes and okapis), Hippopotamidae (hippopotamuses), Iniidae (Amazon river dolphins, Bolivian river dolphins, and Araguaian river dolphins), Kogiidae (pygmy and dwarf sperm whales), Monodontidae (narwhals and belugas), Moschidae (musk deer), Phocoenidae (porpoises), Physeteridae (sperm whales), Platanistidae (Ganges and Indus River dolphins), Pontoporiidae (La Plata dolphins), Suidae (pigs), Tayassuidae (peccaries), Tragulidae (chevrotains), Ziphiidae (beaked whales) – extant families

Translations

taxonomic family

• Georgian: წყვილჩლიქოსნები (c̣q̇vilčlikosnebi)
• Greek: αρτιοδάκτυλα (el) n pl (artiodáktyla)
• Hungarian: párosujjú patások
• Swahili: Wanyama wenye kwato shufwa

Further reading

• Artiodactyla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Artiodactyla on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Artiodactyla on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Artiodactyla at the Open Tree of Life Web Project
• 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