Eutheria

Translingual

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Eutheria

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

Usage notes

almost synonymous with Placentalia

Hypernyms

(infraclass): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Deuterostomia - infrakingdom; Chordata - phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Tetrapoda - superclass; Mammalia - class; Theria - subclass

Hyponyms

(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

References

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

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