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.

Synonyms

• Cetartiodactyla

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 – superoder; Euungulata – mirorder

Hyponyms

• (order): Ruminantia, Suina, Tylopoda, Whippomorpha – suborders
  • Antilocapridae (pronghorns), Balaenidae (right whales and bowheads), Balaenopteridae (blue whales, humpback whales, minke whales, sei whales, fin whales, Bryde's whales, Rice's whales, and Omura's whales), Bovidae (cattle, sheep, goats, antelopes, buffaloes, and bison), Camelidae (camels, llamas, vicuñas, guanacos, and alpacas), Cervidae (deer), Cetotheriidae (pygmy right whales), Delphinidae (common dolphins, bottlenose dolphins, orcas, false killer whales, spotted dolphins, pygmy killer whales, rough-toothed dolphins, melon-headed whales, pilot whales, dusky dolphins, humpback dolphins, Clymene dolphins, white-sided dolphins, white-beaked dolphins, spinner dolphins, striped dolphins, right whale dolphins, tucuxis, Commerson's dolphins, Risso's dolphins, Hector's dolphins, hourglass dolphins, Fraser's dolphins, Heaviside's dolphins, Guiana dolphins, Irrawaddy dolphins, and Chilean dolphins), Eschrichtiidae (gray whales), Giraffidae (giraffes and okapis), Hippopotamidae (hippopotamuses), Iniidae (Amazon river dolphins, Bolivian river dolphins, and Araguaian river dolphins), Kogiidae (pygmy and dwarf sperm whales), Monodontidae (belugas and narwhals), 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
• 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