Mammalia
See also: mammalia
Translingual
editEtymology
editFrom Latin mamma (“breast”), coined by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 as a replacement for his earlier class Quadrupedia.
Proper noun
editMammalia
- 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/Yinotheria, Theria (Trechnotheria) - infraclasses;[1] Australosphenida - clade; †Symmetrodonta - extinct subclass
Coordinate terms
editTranslations
edittaxonomic 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