List of placental mammals

Summary

The class Mammalia (mammals) is divided into two subclasses based on reproductive techniques: monotremes, which lay eggs, and therians, mammals which give live birth, which has two infraclasses: marsupials (pouched mammals) and placental mammals. See List of monotremes and marsupials, and for the clades and families, see Mammal classification. Classification updated from Wilson and Reeder's Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference using the Planet' Mammifères website.[1]

Over 70% of mammal species are in the orders Rodentia (blue), Chiroptera (red), and Soricomorpha (yellow)
  Rodentia
  Chiroptera
  Soricomorpha
  Primates
  Carnivora
  Artiodactyla
  Diprotodontia
  Lagomorpha
  Didelphimorphia
  Cetacea
  Dasyuromorphia
  Afrosoricida
  Erinaceomorpha
  Cingulata
  Peramelemorphia
  Scandentia
  Perissodactyla
  Macroscelidea
  Pilosa
  Monotremata
  Proboscidea

Magnorder Atlantogenata edit

Superorder Afrotheria edit

Clade Afroinsectiphilia edit

Order Tubulidentata (aardvarks) edit
 
Aardvark, Orycteropus afer
Clade Afroinsectivora edit
Order Macroscelidea (elephant shrews) edit
 
Black and rufous elephant shrew
Order Afrosoricida (tenrecs and golden moles) edit
 
A tenrec

Clade Paenungulata edit

Order Hyracoidea (hyraxes) edit
 
Cape hyrax, Procavia capensis
Clade Tethytheria edit
Order Proboscidea (elephants) edit
 
African bush elephant, Loxodonta africana
Order Sirenia (dugongs and manatees) edit
 
West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus

Superorder Xenarthra edit

Order Cingulata (armadillos) edit

Order Pilosa edit

10 extant species in 4 families, all in the Americas, comprising anteaters and sloths.

 
Silky anteater
Suborder Vermilingua (anteaters) edit
Suborder Folivora (sloths) edit

Magnorder Boreoeutheria edit

Superorder Euarchontoglires edit

Grandorder Euarchonta edit

Mirorder Primatomorpha edit
Order Scandentia (treeshrews) edit

There are 20 species placed in five genera; all are from Southeast Asia.

Order Dermoptera (colugos) edit
 
Sunda flying lemur
Order Primates edit

Grandorder Glires edit

Order Rodentia edit
Order Lagomorpha edit

Superorder Laurasiatheria edit

Order Eulipotyphla edit

Clade Ferungulata edit

Order Chiroptera (bats) edit
Order Pholidota (pangolins) edit
 
An Indian pangolin
Order Cetacea edit
Order Carnivora edit
Order Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) edit
 
Tibetan wild ass

Known as odd-toed ungulates, their rear hooves consist of an odd number of toes.

Suborder Hippomorpha edit
Suborder Ceratomorpha edit
Order Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates) edit
 
Bactrian camel, Camelus bactrianus

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Boudet Ch. "Planet' Mammiferes". Planet' Mammiferes. 4.1 of 2013/12/23. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  2. ^ Smit, H.A.; Robinson, T.J.; Watson, J.; Jansen Van Vuuren, B. (October 2008). "A new species of elephant-shrew (Afrotheria: Macroselidea: Elephantulus) from South Africa". Journal of Mammalogy. 89 (5): 1257–1269. doi:10.1644/07-MAMM-A-254.1.
  3. ^ "Shrew's who: New mammal enters the book of life". AFP. January 30, 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-02-04. Retrieved August 4, 2015 – via Google News.
  • Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 1–2, 22–70. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
  • Gardner, A. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 3–21. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.