Eutheria

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TranslingualEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Ancient Greek εὖ (eû, “good, true”) + θηρίον (thēríon, “beast”).

Proper nounEdit

Eutheria

1. A taxonomic infraclass within the subclass Theria – the animals more closely related to placentals like rodents and humans than to marsupials.

Usage notesEdit

• almost synonymous with Placentalia

HypernymsEdit

• (infraclass): Tetrapoda - superclass; Amniota, Synapsida - clades; Pelycosauria - informal group; Eupelycosauria - clade; Therapsida - order; Theriodontia, Cynodontia, Mammaliaformes - clades; Mammalia - class; Trechnotheria - subclass; Zatheria - infraclass; Theria - supercohort

HyponymsEdit

• (infraclass): Xenarthra (anteaters, sloths and armadillos), Afrotheria (elephants, aardvarks etc); Boreoeutheria: Laurasiatheria (mammals descended from those of the supercontinent of Laurasia), Euarchontoglires (rodents, primates etc)

or

• (infraclass): Afrosoricida, Artiodactyla, Carnivora, Cetacea, Chiroptera, Cingulata, Dermoptera, Erinaceomorpha, Hyracoidea, Lagomorpha, Macroscelidea, Perissodactyla, Pholidota, Pilosa, Primates, Proboscidea, Rodentia, Scandentia, Sirenia, Soricomorpha, Tubulidentata - orders

Further readingEdit

• Eutheria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eutheria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Eutheria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Eutheria at the Tree of Life Web Project

ReferencesEdit

• 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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521