Over 70% of mammal species are in the orders Rodentia, Chiroptera, and Eulipotyphla.
Rodentia (40.5%)
Chiroptera (22.2%)
Eulipotyphla (8.8%)
Primates (7.8%)
Artiodactyla (5.4%)
Carnivora (4.7%)
Diprotodontia (2.3%)
Didelphimorphia (1.9%)
Lagomorpha (1.7%)
Dasyuromorphia (1.3%)
Afrosoricida (0.8%)
Cingulata (0.3%)
Macroscelidea (0.3%)
Peramelemorphia (0.3%)
Perissodactyla (0.3%)
Pilosa (0.3%)
Scandentia (0.3%)
Paucituberculata (0.1%)
Pholidota (0.1%)
Hyracoidea (0.09%)
Monotremata (0.08%)
Sirenia (0.06%)
Proboscidea (0.05%)
Dermoptera (0.03%)
Microbiotheria (0.03%)
Notoryctemorphia (0.03%)
Tubulidentata (0.02%)
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/metatherians and placentals/eutherians. See List of monotremes and marsupials, and for the clades and families, see Mammal classification. Classification updated from the VertLife website.[1]
Magnorder Atlantogenata
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Superorder Afrotheria
[edit]Grandorder Afroinsectiphilia
[edit]Order Tubulidentata (aardvarks)
[edit]- Family Orycteropodidae
- Genus Orycteropus
- Aardvark, Orycteropus afer
- Genus Orycteropus
Mirorder Afroinsectivora
[edit]Order Macroscelidea (elephant shrews)
[edit]Order Afrosoricida (tenrecs, golden moles and otter shrews)
[edit]Grandorder Paenungulata
[edit]Order Hyracoidea (hyraxes)
[edit]- Family Procaviidae
- Genus Dendrohyrax
- Southern tree hyrax, Dendrohyrax arboreus
- Western tree hyrax, Dendrohyrax dorsalis
- Genus Heterohyrax
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax, Heterohyrax brucei
- Genus Procavia
- Cape hyrax, Procavia capensis
- Genus Dendrohyrax
Mirorder Tethytheria
[edit]Order Proboscidea (elephants)
[edit]- Family Elephantidae
- Family Dugongidae
- Genus Dugong
- Dugong, Dugong dugon
- Genus Hydrodamalis
- †Steller's sea cow, Hydrodamalis gigas
- Genus Dugong
- Family Trichechidae
- Genus Trichechus (manatees)
- West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus
- African manatee, Trichechus senegalensis
- Amazonian manatee, Trichechus inunguis
- Dwarf manatee, Trichecus pygmaeus – validity questionable
- Genus Trichechus (manatees)
Order Cingulata (armadillos)
[edit]Magnorder Boreoeutheria
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Superorder Euarchontoglires
[edit]Grandorder Euarchonta
[edit]Order Scandentia (treeshrews)
[edit]Mirorder Primatomorpha
[edit]Order Dermoptera (colugos)
[edit]- Family Cynocephalidae
- Genus Cynocephalus
- Philippine flying lemur, Cynocephalus volans
- Genus Galeopterus
- Sunda flying lemur, Galeopterus variegatus
- Genus Cynocephalus
Order Lagomorpha (hares, rabbits, and pikas)
[edit]Superorder Laurasiatheria
[edit]Order Eulipotyphla (hedgehogs, moles, shrews, etc.)
[edit]Order Chiroptera (bats)
[edit]Grandorder Ferungulata
[edit]Mirorder Euungulata
[edit]Order Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates)
[edit]Order Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates)
[edit]See also
[edit]- Mammal classification
- List of prehistoric mammals
- List of recently extinct mammals
- List of monotremes and marsupials
References
[edit]- 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.