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Carnivora

Index Carnivora

Carnivora is an order of placental mammals that have specialized in primarily eating flesh, whose members are formally referred to as carnivorans. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 172 relations: Aardwolf, Africa, African palm civet, Ailuridae, American mink, Americas, Arctic fox, Arctic Ocean, Arctocyonia, Asiatic linsang, Atlantic Ocean, Australasia, Baculum, Badger, Banded linsang, Bat, Bear, Beringia, Big cat, Binturong, Botany, Brown bear, Brown fur seal, Canidae, Caniformia, Caninae, Canis, Caribbean monk seal, Carl Linnaeus, Carnassial, Carnivoramorpha, Cat, Caucasus, Central Asia, Cetacea, Charismatic megafauna, Cheetah, Claw, Climate change, Convergent evolution, Creodonta, Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, Crown group, Cursorial, Digitigrade, Dog, Eared seal, Earless seal, Eastern falanouc, Egyptian mongoose, ... Expand index (122 more) »

  2. Carnivorans
  3. Extant Lutetian first appearances
  4. Taxa named by Thomas Edward Bowdich

Aardwolf

The aardwolf (Proteles cristatus) is an insectivorous hyaenid species, native to East and Southern Africa.

See Carnivora and Aardwolf

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

See Carnivora and Africa

African palm civet

The African palm civet (Nandinia binotata), also known as the two-spotted palm civet, is a small feliform mammal widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa.

See Carnivora and African palm civet

Ailuridae

Ailuridae is a family in the mammal order Carnivora. Carnivora and Ailuridae are carnivorans.

See Carnivora and Ailuridae

American mink

The American mink (Neogale vison) is a semiaquatic species of mustelid native to North America, though human introduction has expanded its range to many parts of Europe, Asia, and South America.

See Carnivora and American mink

Americas

The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.

See Carnivora and Americas

Arctic fox

The Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), also known as the white fox, polar fox, or snow fox, is a small species of fox native to the Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and common throughout the Arctic tundra biome.

See Carnivora and Arctic fox

Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions.

See Carnivora and Arctic Ocean

Arctocyonia

Arctocyonians (Arctocyonia; also known as "Procreodi") are a clade of laurasiatherian mammals whose stratigraphic range runs from the Palaeocene to the Early Eocene epochs.

See Carnivora and Arctocyonia

Asiatic linsang

The Asiatic linsang (Prionodon) is a genus comprising two species native to Southeast Asia: the banded linsang (Prionodon linsang) and the spotted linsang (Prionodon pardicolor).

See Carnivora and Asiatic linsang

Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

See Carnivora and Atlantic Ocean

Australasia

Australasia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising Australia, New Zealand, and some neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean.

See Carnivora and Australasia

Baculum

The baculum (bacula), also known as the penis bone, penile bone, os penis, os genitale, or os priapi, is a bone in the penis of many placental mammals.

See Carnivora and Baculum

Badger

Badgers are short-legged omnivores in the family Mustelidae (which also includes the otters, wolverines, martens, minks, polecats, weasels, and ferrets).

See Carnivora and Badger

Banded linsang

The banded linsang (Prionodon linsang) is a linsang, a tree-dwelling carnivorous mammal native to the Sundaic region of Southeast Asia.

See Carnivora and Banded linsang

Bat

Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera.

See Carnivora and Bat

Bear

Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae.

See Carnivora and Bear

Beringia

Beringia is defined today as the land and maritime area bounded on the west by the Lena River in Russia; on the east by the Mackenzie River in Canada; on the north by 72° north latitude in the Chukchi Sea; and on the south by the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula.

See Carnivora and Beringia

Big cat

The term "big cat" is typically used to refer to any of the five living members of the genus Panthera, namely the tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, and snow leopard, as well as the non-pantherine cheetah and cougar.

See Carnivora and Big cat

Binturong

The binturong (Arctictis binturong), also known as the bearcat, is a viverrid native to South and Southeast Asia.

See Carnivora and Binturong

Botany

Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Brown bear

The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear native to Eurasia and North America.

See Carnivora and Brown bear

Brown fur seal

The brown fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus), also known as the Cape fur seal, and Afro-Australian fur seal, is a species of fur seal.

See Carnivora and Brown fur seal

Canidae

Canidae (from Latin, canis, "dog") is a biological family of dog-like carnivorans, colloquially referred to as dogs, and constitutes a clade.

See Carnivora and Canidae

Caniformia

Caniformia is a suborder within the order Carnivora consisting of "dog-like" carnivorans. Carnivora and Caniformia are carnivorans and extant Lutetian first appearances.

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Caninae

Caninae (whos members are known as canines) is the only living subfamily within Canidae, alongside the extinct Borophaginae and Hesperocyoninae.

See Carnivora and Caninae

Canis

Canis is a genus of the Caninae which includes multiple extant species, such as wolves, dogs, coyotes, and golden jackals.

See Carnivora and Canis

Caribbean monk seal

The Caribbean monk seal (Neomonachus tropicalis), also known as the West Indian seal or sea wolf, is an extinct species of seal native to the Caribbean.

See Carnivora and Caribbean monk seal

Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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Carnassial

Carnassials are paired upper and lower teeth modified in such a way as to allow enlarged and often self-sharpening edges to pass by each other in a shearing manner.

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Carnivoramorpha

Carnivoramorpha ("carnivoran-like forms") is a clade of placental mammals of clade Pan-Carnivora from mirorder Ferae, that includes the modern order Carnivora and its extinct stem-relatives.

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Cat

The cat (Felis catus), commonly referred to as the domestic cat or house cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal.

See Carnivora and Cat

Caucasus

The Caucasus or Caucasia, is a transcontinental region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia.

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Central Asia

Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.

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Cetacea

Cetacea is an infraorder of aquatic mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.

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Charismatic megafauna

Charismatic megafauna are animal species that are large—in the relevant category that they represent—with symbolic value or widespread popular appeal, and are often used by environmental activists to gain public support for environmentalist goals.

See Carnivora and Charismatic megafauna

Cheetah

The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is a large cat and the fastest land animal.

See Carnivora and Cheetah

Claw

A claw is a curved, pointed appendage found at the end of a toe or finger in most amniotes (mammals, reptiles, birds).

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Convergent evolution

Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time.

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Creodonta

Creodonta ("meat teeth") is a former order of extinct carnivorous placental mammals that lived from the early Paleocene to the late Miocene epochs in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.

See Carnivora and Creodonta

Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth approximately 66 million years ago.

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Crown group

In phylogenetics, the crown group or crown assemblage is a collection of species composed of the living representatives of the collection, the most recent common ancestor of the collection, and all descendants of the most recent common ancestor.

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Cursorial

A cursorial organism is one that is adapted specifically to run.

See Carnivora and Cursorial

Digitigrade

In terrestrial vertebrates, digitigrade locomotion is walking or running on the toes (from the Latin digitus, 'finger', and gradior, 'walk').

See Carnivora and Digitigrade

Dog

The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf.

See Carnivora and Dog

Eared seal

An eared seal, otariid, or otary is any member of the marine mammal family Otariidae, one of three groupings of pinnipeds.

See Carnivora and Eared seal

Earless seal

The earless seals, phocids, or true seals are one of the three main groups of mammals within the seal lineage, Pinnipedia.

See Carnivora and Earless seal

Eastern falanouc

The eastern falanouc (Eupleres goudotii) is a rare mongoose-like mammal in the carnivoran family Eupleridae endemic to Madagascar.

See Carnivora and Eastern falanouc

Egyptian mongoose

The Egyptian mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon), also known as ichneumon, is a mongoose species native to the tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands of Africa and around the Mediterranean Basin in North Africa, the Middle East and the Iberian Peninsula.

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Eocene

The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).

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Eupleridae

Eupleridae is a family of carnivorans endemic to Madagascar and comprising 10 known living species in seven genera, commonly known as euplerids, Malagasy mongooses or Malagasy carnivorans.

See Carnivora and Eupleridae

Eurasia

Eurasia is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia.

See Carnivora and Eurasia

Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

See Carnivora and Europe

Falkland Islands wolf

The Falkland Islands wolf (Dusicyon australis), also known as the warrah and occasionally as the Falkland Islands dog, Falkland Islands fox, warrah fox, or Antarctic wolf, was the only native land mammal of the Falkland Islands.

See Carnivora and Falkland Islands wolf

Felidae

Felidae is the family of mammals in the order Carnivora colloquially referred to as cats.

See Carnivora and Felidae

Feliformia

Feliformia is a suborder within the order Carnivora consisting of "cat-like" carnivorans, including cats (large and small), hyenas, mongooses, viverrids, and related taxa. Carnivora and Feliformia are carnivorans.

See Carnivora and Feliformia

Felis

Felis is a genus of small and medium-sized cat species native to most of Africa and south of 60° latitude in Europe and Asia to Indochina.

See Carnivora and Felis

Ferae

Ferae ("wild beasts") is a mirorder of placental mammalsMalcolm C. McKenna, Susan K. Bell: Classification of Mammals: Above the Species Level in Columbia University Press, New York (1997), 631 Seiten.

See Carnivora and Ferae

Fissipedia

Fissipedia ("split feet") is a former suborder of placental mammals comprising the largely land-based families of the order Carnivora.

See Carnivora and Fissipedia

Flipper (anatomy)

A flipper is a broad, flattened limb adapted for aquatic locomotion.

See Carnivora and Flipper (anatomy)

Fossa (animal)

The fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox; or) is a slender, long-tailed, cat-like mammal that is endemic to Madagascar.

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Fur

Fur is a thick growth of hair that covers the skin of almost all mammals.

See Carnivora and Fur

Fur seal

Fur seals are any of nine species of pinnipeds belonging to the subfamily Arctocephalinae in the family Otariidae.

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Genet (animal)

A genet (pronounced or) is a member of the genus Genetta, which consists of 17 species of small African carnivorans.

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George Gaylord Simpson

George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 – October 6, 1984) was an American paleontologist.

See Carnivora and George Gaylord Simpson

Harbor seal

The harbor (or harbour) seal (Phoca vitulina), also known as the common seal, is a true seal found along temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere.

See Carnivora and Harbor seal

Herpestoidea

Herpestoidea is a superfamily of mammalia carnivores which includes mongooses, Malagasy carnivoransWozencraft, 2005, pp.

See Carnivora and Herpestoidea

Heterodont

In anatomy, a heterodont (from Greek, meaning 'different teeth') is an animal which possesses more than a single tooth morphology.

See Carnivora and Heterodont

Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya.

See Carnivora and Himalayas

Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.

See Carnivora and Holocene

Hyaenodonta

Hyaenodonta ("hyena teeth") is an extinct order of hypercarnivorous placental mammals of clade Pan-Carnivora from mirorder Ferae.

See Carnivora and Hyaenodonta

Hyena

Hyenas or hyaenas (from Ancient Greek ὕαινα) are feliform carnivoran mammals belonging to the family Hyaenidae.

See Carnivora and Hyena

Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula (IPA), also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia.

See Carnivora and Iberian Peninsula

Incisor

Incisors (from Latin incidere, "to cut") are the front teeth present in most mammals.

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Indian grey mongoose

The Indian grey mongoose or Asian grey mongoose (Urva edwardsii) is a mongoose species native to the Indian subcontinent and West Asia.

See Carnivora and Indian grey mongoose

Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.

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Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

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Indomalayan realm

The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Japanese sea lion

The Japanese sea lion (Zalophus japonicus) (translit) was an aquatic mammal that became extinct in the 1970s.

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Lake Baikal

Lake Baikal (Ozero Baykal; Baigal dalai) is a large rift lake in Russia.

See Carnivora and Lake Baikal

Large Indian civet

The large Indian civet (Viverra zibetha) is a viverrid native to South and Southeast Asia.

See Carnivora and Large Indian civet

Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

See Carnivora and Latin

Laurasiatheria

Laurasiatheria ("laurasian beasts") is a superorder of placental mammals that groups together true insectivores (eulipotyphlans), bats (chiropterans), carnivorans, pangolins (pholidotes), even-toed ungulates (artiodactyls), odd-toed ungulates (perissodactyls), and all their extinct relatives.

See Carnivora and Laurasiatheria

Linsang

The linsangs are four species of tree-dwelling carnivorous mammals. Carnivora and linsang are carnivorans.

See Carnivora and Linsang

Lion

The lion (Panthera leo) is a large cat of the genus Panthera, native to Africa and India.

See Carnivora and Lion

List of carnivorans

Carnivora is an order of placental mammals that have specialized in primarily eating flesh. Carnivora and List of carnivorans are carnivorans.

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List of carnivorans by population

This is a list of estimated global populations of Carnivora species. Carnivora and list of carnivorans by population are carnivorans.

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Local extinction

Local extinction, also extirpation, is the termination of a species (or other taxon) in a chosen geographic area of study, though it still exists elsewhere.

See Carnivora and Local extinction

Madagascar

Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and the Fourth Republic of Madagascar, is an island country comprising the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.

See Carnivora and Madagascar

Malaysia

Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.

See Carnivora and Malaysia

Mammal classification

Mammalia is a class of animal within the phylum Chordata.

See Carnivora and Mammal classification

Mephitidae

Mephitidae is a family of mammals comprising the skunks and stink badgers.

See Carnivora and Mephitidae

Mesonychia

Mesonychia ("middle claws") is an extinct taxon of small- to large-sized carnivorous ungulates related to artiodactyls.

See Carnivora and Mesonychia

Miacidae

Miacidae ("small points") is a former paraphyletic family of extinct primitive placental mammals that lived in North America, Europe and Asia during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, about 65–33.9 million years ago.

See Carnivora and Miacidae

Miacoidea

Miacoidea ("small points") is a former paraphyletic superfamily of extinct placental mammals that lived during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, about 66-33,9 million years ago.

See Carnivora and Miacoidea

Middle East

The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.

See Carnivora and Middle East

Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

See Carnivora and Miocene

Molar (tooth)

The molars or molar teeth are large, flat teeth at the back of the mouth.

See Carnivora and Molar (tooth)

Mongoose

A mongoose is a small terrestrial carnivorous mammal belonging to the family Herpestidae.

See Carnivora and Mongoose

Monophyly

In biological cladistics for the classification of organisms, monophyly is the condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of taxa which meets these criteria.

See Carnivora and Monophyly

Mustelidae

The Mustelidae (from Latin, weasel) are a diverse family of carnivoran mammals, including weasels, badgers, otters, polecats, martens, grisons, and wolverines. Carnivora and Mustelidae are carnivorans.

See Carnivora and Mustelidae

Musteloidea

Musteloidea is a superfamily of carnivoran mammals united by shared characteristics of the skull and teeth.

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Nasal concha

In anatomy, a nasal concha (conchae;; Latin for 'shell'), also called a nasal turbinate or turbinal, is a long, narrow, curled shelf of bone that protrudes into the breathing passage of the nose in humans and various other animals.

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Neurocranium

In human anatomy, the neurocranium, also known as the braincase, brainpan, or brain-pan, is the upper and back part of the skull, which forms a protective case around the brain.

See Carnivora and Neurocranium

Nimravidae

Nimravidae is an extinct family of carnivorans, sometimes known as false saber-toothed cats, whose fossils are found in North America and Eurasia.

See Carnivora and Nimravidae

North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

See Carnivora and North America

North Pole

The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole, Terrestrial North Pole or 90th Parallel North, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.

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Northern Hemisphere

The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.

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Odobenidae

Odobenidae is a family of pinnipeds, of which the only extant species is the walrus (Odobenus rosmarus).

See Carnivora and Odobenidae

Old World

The "Old World" is a term for Afro-Eurasia that originated in Europe after 1493, when Europeans became aware of the existence of the Americas.

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Olfactory receptor

Olfactory receptors (ORs), also known as odorant receptors, are chemoreceptors expressed in the cell membranes of olfactory receptor neurons and are responsible for the detection of odorants (for example, compounds that have an odor) which give rise to the sense of smell.

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Order (biology)

Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Oxyaenidae

Oxyaenidae ("sharp hyenas") is a family of extinct carnivorous placental mammals.

See Carnivora and Oxyaenidae

Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Paleocene

The Paleocene, or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 million years ago (mya).

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Paleogene

The Paleogene Period (also spelled Palaeogene or Palæogene) is a geologic period and system that spans 43 million years from the end of the Cretaceous Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Neogene Period Ma.

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Pangolin

Pangolins, sometimes known as scaly anteaters, are mammals of the order Pholidota.

See Carnivora and Pangolin

Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

See Carnivora and Philippines

Phoca

Phoca is a genus of the earless seals, within the family Phocidae.

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Pinniped

Pinnipeds (pronounced), commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals.

See Carnivora and Pinniped

Placentalia

Placental mammals (infraclass Placentalia) are one of the three extant subdivisions of the class Mammalia, the other two being Monotremata and Marsupialia.

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Plantigrade

Portion of a human skeleton, showing plantigrade habit In terrestrial animals, plantigrade locomotion means walking with the toes and metatarsals flat on the ground.

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Polar bear

The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a large bear native to the Arctic and nearby areas.

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Polar regions of Earth

The polar regions, also called the frigid zones or polar zones, of Earth are Earth's polar ice caps, the regions of the planet that surround its geographical poles (the North and South Poles), lying within the polar circles.

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Polymorphism (biology)

In biology, polymorphism is the occurrence of two or more clearly different morphs or forms, also referred to as alternative phenotypes, in the population of a species.

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Polyphyly

A polyphyletic group is an assemblage that includes organisms with mixed evolutionary origin but does not include their most recent common ancestor.

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Procyonidae

Procyonidae is a New World family of the order Carnivora.

See Carnivora and Procyonidae

Quadrupedalism

Quadrupedalism is a form of locomotion where animals have four legs are used to bear weight and move around.

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Raccoon

The raccoon (or, Procyon lotor), also spelled racoon and sometimes called the common raccoon or northern raccoon to distinguish it from the other species, is a mammal native to North America.

See Carnivora and Raccoon

Red fox

The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the largest of the true foxes and one of the most widely distributed members of the order Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere including most of North America, Europe and Asia, plus parts of North Africa.

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Red panda

The red panda (Ailurus fulgens), also known as the lesser panda, is a small mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China.

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Rostrum (anatomy)

Rostrum (from Latin rostrum, meaning beak) is a term used in anatomy for a number of phylogenetically unrelated structures in different groups of animals.

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Sagittal crest

A sagittal crest is a ridge of bone running lengthwise along the midline of the top of the skull (at the sagittal suture) of many mammalian and reptilian skulls, among others.

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Sahara

The Sahara is a desert spanning across North Africa.

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Sea

A sea is a large body of salty water.

See Carnivora and Sea

Sea lion

Sea lions are pinnipeds characterized by external ear flaps, long foreflippers, the ability to walk on all fours, short and thick hair, and a big chest and belly.

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Sea mink

The sea mink (Neogale macrodon) is a recently extinct species of mink that lived on the eastern coast of North America around the Gulf of Maine on the New England seaboard.

See Carnivora and Sea mink

Sea otter

The sea otter (Enhydra lutris) is a marine mammal native to the coasts of the northern and eastern North Pacific Ocean.

See Carnivora and Sea otter

Seasonal breeder

Seasonal breeders are animal species that successfully mate only during certain times of the year.

See Carnivora and Seasonal breeder

Septum

In biology, a septum (Latin for something that encloses;: septa) is a wall, dividing a cavity or structure into smaller ones.

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Sirenia

The Sirenia, commonly referred to as sea cows or sirenians, are an order of fully aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit swamps, rivers, estuaries, marine wetlands, and coastal marine waters. Carnivora and sirenia are mammal orders.

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Skunk

Skunks are mammals in the family Mephitidae.

See Carnivora and Skunk

South American sea lion

The South American sea lion (Otaria flavescens, formerly Otaria byronia), also called the southern sea lion and the Patagonian sea lion, is a sea lion found on the western and southeastern coasts of South America.

See Carnivora and South American sea lion

Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.

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Southwestern China

Southwestern China is a region in the south of the People's Republic of China.

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Spotted hyena

The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), also known as the laughing hyena, is a hyena species, currently classed as the sole extant member of the genus Crocuta, native to sub-Saharan Africa.

See Carnivora and Spotted hyena

Stoat

The stoat (Mustela erminea), also known as the Eurasian ermine or ermine, is a species of mustelid native to Eurasia and the northern regions of North America.

See Carnivora and Stoat

Striped hyena

The striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) is a species of hyena native to North and East Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.

See Carnivora and Striped hyena

Striped skunk

The striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) is a skunk of the genus Mephitis that occurs across much of North America, including southern Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico.

See Carnivora and Striped skunk

Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsahara, or Non-Mediterranean Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara.

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Subarctic

The subarctic zone is a region in the Northern Hemisphere immediately south of the true Arctic, north of humid continental regions and covering much of Alaska, Canada, Iceland, the north of Fennoscandia, Northwestern Russia, Siberia, and the Cairngorms.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Systema Naturae

(originally in Latin written with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy.

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Systematic Biology

Systematic Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Systematic Biologists.

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Tail

The tail is the section at the rear end of certain kinds of animals' bodies; in general, the term refers to a distinct, flexible appendage to the torso.

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Thomas Edward Bowdich

Thomas Edward Bowdich (20 June 179110 January 1824) was an English traveller and author.

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Ungulate

Ungulates are members of the diverse clade Euungulata ("true ungulates"), which primarily consists of large mammals with hooves.

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Ursoidea

Ursoidea is a superfamily of arctoid carnivoran mammals that includes the families Subparictidae, Amphicynodontidae, and Ursidae.

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Ursus (mammal)

Ursus is a genus in the family Ursidae (bears) that includes the widely distributed brown bear, the polar bear, the American black bear, and the Asian black bear.

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Viverra

Viverra is a mammalian genus that was first named and described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 as comprising several species including the large Indian civet (V. zibetha).

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Viverravidae

Viverravidae ("ancestors of viverrids") is an extinct monophyletic family of mammals from extinct superfamily Viverravoidea within the clade Carnivoramorpha, that lived from the early Palaeocene to the late Eocene in North America, Europe and Asia.

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Viverridae

Viverridae is a family of small to medium-sized, feliform mammals.

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Walrus

The walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) is a large pinniped marine mammal with discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Weasel

Weasels are mammals of the genus Mustela of the family Mustelidae.

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Wolf

The wolf (Canis lupus;: wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America.

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Wolverine

The wolverine (Gulo gulo), also called the carcajou or quickhatch (from East Cree, kwiihkwahaacheew), is the largest land-dwelling member of the family Mustelidae.

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Ypresian

In the geologic timescale the Ypresian is the oldest age or lowest stratigraphic stage of the Eocene.

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Zygomatic arch

In anatomy, the zygomatic arch, or cheek bone, is a part of the skull formed by the zygomatic process of the temporal bone (a bone extending forward from the side of the skull, over the opening of the ear) and the temporal process of the zygomatic bone (the side of the cheekbone), the two being united by an oblique suture (the zygomaticotemporal suture); the tendon of the temporal muscle passes medial to (i.e.

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10th edition of Systema Naturae

The 10th edition of Systema Naturae (Latin; the English title is A General System of Nature) is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.

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See also

Carnivorans

Extant Lutetian first appearances

Taxa named by Thomas Edward Bowdich

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivora

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