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Monotremata
Meaning: single hole
-Egg laying (oviparous)
Ex) Mammals: Duck-billed platypus, echidnas
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Didelphimorphia
Meaning: two uterus form
- ex) American opossums
- -characterized by abdominal pouch
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Diprotodontia
Meaning: two front teeth
Ex) Koalas, wombats, possums, wallabies, kangaroos
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Tubulidentata
Meaning: tube, tooth
Ex) aardvark, piglike body
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Proboscidea
Meaning: Elephant's Trunk, from pro, before to feed
Ex) Elephants, largest living land animals
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Hyracoidea
Meaning: Shrew
Ex) Hyraxes--coneys
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Sirenia
Meaning: Sea Nymph
ex) sea cows and manatees
-large, clumsy aquatic animals
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Cingulata
Meaning: Belt
- ex) armadillos
- -insectivorous mammals with small peglike teeth and belt like bands of armor.
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Pilosa
Meaning: hairy
ex) sloths, anteaters
toothless mammals that use long tongues to feed on ants and termites
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Primates
Meaning: first
Ex) prosimains, monkeys, apes, humans
-first among animals in brain development
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Lagomorpha
Meaning: hare form
Ex) rabbits, hares, pikas
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Rodentia
Meaning: to gnaw
ex) gnawing mammals: squirrels, rats, woodchucks
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Soricomorpha
Meaning: shrew form
Ex) shrews and moles
-sharp snouted animals
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Chiroptera
Meaning: hand, wing
ex) bats
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Carnivora
Meaning: Flesh to devour
-flesh eating mammals
Ex) dogs, wolves, cats, bears, weasels, sea lions, walruses
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Pholidota
Meaning: Horny scale
Ex) pangolins, animals with bodies covered with overlapping horny scales
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Perissodactyla
Meaning: Odd toe
Odd-toed hoofed mammals: horses, asses, zebras, tapirs, rhinoceroses
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Artiodactyla
Meaning: Even toe
ex) even-toed hoofed mammals: swine, camels, deer and their allies, giraffes, hippoptamus, antelopes, cattle, sheep, goats
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Cetacea
Meaning: Whale
Ex) Whales, dolphins, porpoises
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