Classification of mammals above the species level

Columbia University Press

1997

xii, 631 p. (1 folded)

978-0231110129

Introduction. Authorship ; Scope (Upper taxonomic limit ; Lower taxonomic limit ; Synonymy ; Use of taxa, incertiae sedis ; Range data) ; Bibliographic information --History and theory of classification. Hierarchical subordination ; Binomial nomenclature ; Post-Linnaean nomenclature and its management ; Nonterminal taxa and obligatory terminal taxa ; Metataxa or apparent ancestors? ; Paleontological taxa and apparent ancestors ; Crown groups --A classification of mammals. Order Platypoda : platypuses ; Order Tachyglossa : echidnas ; Order Multituberculata ; Order Amphidontoidea ; Order Spalacotherioidea ; Order Dryolestida ; Order Amphitheriida ; Order Deltatheroida ; Order Asiadelphia ; Order Yalkaparidontia ; Order Notoryctemorphia : marsupial moles ; Order Peramelia : bandicoots ; Order Diprotodontia : wombats, kangaroos, koalas, and kin ; Order Didelphimorphia : opossums and kin ; Order Paucituberculata : rat opossums and kin ; Order Sparassodonta ; Order Bibymalagasia ; Order Cingulata : armadillos and kin ; Order Pilosa : anteaters and sloths ; Order Mimotonida ; Order Lagomorpha : pikas and rabbits ; Order Mixodonta ; Order Rodentia : rodents ; Order Cimolesta ; Order Creodonta ; Order Carnivora : carnivores ; Order Chrysochloridea : golden moles ; Order Erinaceomorphia : hedgehogs, moles, and kin ; Order Soricomorpha : shrews, tenrecs, and kin ; Order Chiroptera : bats ; Order Primates : primates ; Order Scandentia : tree shrews ; Order Tubulidentata : aardvarks ; Order Dinocerata ; Order Procreodi ; Order Condylarthra ; Order Arctostylopida ; Order Cete ; Order Artiodactyla : pigs, camels, deer, giraffes, cattle, and kin ; Order Litopterna ; Order Notoungulata ; Order Astrapotheria ; Order Xenungulata ; Order Pyrotheria ; Order Perissodactyla : horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs ; Order Uranotheria, new --Appendix A: Article 36 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature --Appendix B: Mammaliaform and mammalian characters --Appendix C: Some close mammalian outgroups (Nonmammalian mammaliaforms) --Appendix D: Taxonomic suffixes denoting rank.

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