Macroscelidea

Translingual

Etymology

Macroscelides +‎ -ea

Proper noun

Macroscelidea

A taxonomic order within the class Mammalia – the elephant shrews.

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

Hyponyms

(order): Macroscelididae - the only family

References

Macroscelidea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Macroscelidea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Macroscelidea 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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

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