Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A suborder of Ungulata containing the odd-toed hoofed quadrupeds: distinguished from
Artiodactyla .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of ungulate mammals, including those that have an odd number of toes, as the horse, tapir, and rhinoceros; -- opposed to
Artiodactyla .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
order within thesuperorder Laurasiatheria — the odd-toedungulates .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun nonruminant ungulates: horses; tapirs; rhinoceros; extinct forms
Etymologies
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Perissodactyla and all the other orders of hair-covered, milk-producing animals are grouped together in a "class," Mammalia.
Lazarus, Elvis, zombies and Jimmy Hoffa Edward Willett 2007
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Equidae is then grouped with two other families, the rhinoceroses and the tapirs, to make up an "order," Perissodactyla, the odd-toed ungulates.
Lazarus, Elvis, zombies and Jimmy Hoffa Edward Willett 2007
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Cladistic analysis of the family Rhinocerotidae (Perissodactyla).
Are Sumatran rhinos really ‘living fossils’? Darren Naish 2006
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Phylogenetic relationships of the five extant rhinoceros species (Rhinocerotidae, Perissodactyla) based on mitochondrial cytochrome b and 12S rRNA genes.
Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Cladistic analysis of the family Rhinocerotidae (Perissodactyla).
Are Sumatran rhinos really ‘living fossils’? Darren Naish 2006
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Horses are members of the odd-toed ungulates, Perissodactyla.
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Phylogenetic relationships of the five extant rhinoceros species (Rhinocerotidae, Perissodactyla) based on mitochondrial cytochrome b and 12S rRNA genes.
Are Sumatran rhinos really ‘living fossils’? Darren Naish 2006
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Horses are members of the odd-toed ungulates, Perissodactyla.
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Cladistic analysis of the family Rhinocerotidae (Perissodactyla).
Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Most of them are 59 Chiroptera, but there are also 17 Rodentia, 11 Carnivora, 5 Edentada, 4 Marsupialia, 2 Primates, 2 Artiodactyla, 1 Perissodactyla, and 1 Lagomorpha.
Llanos 2007
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