Mammalia

See also: mammalia

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin mamma (“breast”), coined by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 as a replacement for his earlier class Quadrupedia.

Proper noun

Mammalia

A taxonomic class within the superclass Tetrapoda – the mammals.

Hypernyms

(class): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Deuterostomia - infrakingdom; Chordata - phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Tetrapoda - superclass[1]
- Tetrapoda - superclass; Reptiliomorpha, Amniota, Synapsidomorpha, Synapsida - clades; Pelycosauria - informal group; Eupelycosauria - clade; Therapsida - order; Theriodontia, Cynodontia, Mammaliaformes - clades

Hyponyms

(class): Prototheria, Theria (Trechnotheria) - infraclasses[1]; Australosphenida - clade; †Symmetrodonta - extinct subclass

Coordinate terms

(class in Tetrapoda): Amphibia, Reptilia[1]

Translations

taxonomic class - mammals

Chinese:
Mandarin: 哺乳綱 (zh), 哺乳纲 (zh) (bǔrǔgāng)

Finnish: nisäkkäät (fi)

References

Mammalia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Mammalia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Mammalia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Mammalia 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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