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; Laurasiatheria – superoder

Hyponyms

• (order): Tylopoda (suborder of camels, llamas, etc); Artiofabula
  • Suina (pigs, etc.), Cetruminantia – taxa in Artiofabula
    • Ruminantia (pronghorns, cattle, goats, sheep, antelopes, deer, giraffes, musk deer, chevrotains), Whippomorpha – suborders in Cetruminantia
      • Ancodonta (hippopotamuses, etc.), Cetacea (whales, porpoises, and dolphins) – infraorders in Whippomorpha
        • Antilocapridae, Balaenidae, Balaenopteridae, Bovidae, Camelidae, Cervidae, Delphinidae, Eschrichtiidae, Giraffidae, Hippopotamidae, Iniidae, Kogiidae, Monodontidae, Moschidae, Neobalaenidae, Phocoenidae, Physeteridae, Platanistidae, Pontoporiidae, Suidae, Tayassuidae, Tragulidae, Ziphiidae – 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