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List of placental mammals

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Over 70% of mammal species are in the orders Rodentia (blue), Chiroptera (red), and Soricomorpha (yellow)
  Rodentia
  Chiroptera
  Soricomorpha
  Primates
  Carnivora
  Artiodactyla
  Diprotodontia
  Lagomorpha
  Didelphimorphia
  Cetacea
  Dasyuromorphia
  Afrosoricida
  Erinaceomorpha
  Cingulata
  Peramelemorphia
  Scandentia
  Perissodactyla
  Macroscelidea
  Pilosa
  Monotremata
  Proboscidea

The class Mammalia (mammals) is divided into two subclasses based on reproductive techniques: monotremes, which lay eggs, and therians, mammals which give live birth, which has two infraclasses: marsupials (pouched mammals) and placental mammals. See List of monotremes and marsupials, and for the clades and families, see Mammal classification. Classification updated from Wilson and Reeder's Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference using the Planet' Mammifères website.[1]

Magnorder Atlantogenata

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Superorder Afrotheria

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Aardvark, Orycteropus afer
Black and rufous elephant shrew
A tenrec

Clade Paenungulata

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Cape hyrax, Procavia capensis
African bush elephant, Loxodonta africana
West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus

Superorder Xenarthra

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Order Pilosa

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10 extant species in 4 families, all in the Americas, comprising anteaters and sloths.

Silky anteater
Suborder Folivora (sloths)
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Magnorder Boreoeutheria

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Grandorder Euarchonta

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There are 20 species placed in five genera; all are from Southeast Asia.

Sunda flying lemur
Order Primates
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Grandorder Glires

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Order Rodentia
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Superorder Laurasiatheria

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An Indian pangolin
Order Cetacea
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Tibetan wild ass

Known as odd-toed ungulates, their rear hooves consist of an odd number of toes.

Suborder Hippomorpha
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Suborder Ceratomorpha
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Bactrian camel, Camelus bactrianus

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Boudet Ch. "Planet' Mammiferes". Planet' Mammiferes. 4.1 of 2013/12/23. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  2. ^ Smit, H.A.; Robinson, T.J.; Watson, J.; Jansen Van Vuuren, B. (October 2008). "A new species of elephant-shrew (Afrotheria: Macroselidea: Elephantulus) from South Africa". Journal of Mammalogy. 89 (5): 1257–1269. doi:10.1644/07-MAMM-A-254.1.
  3. ^ "Shrew's who: New mammal enters the book of life". AFP. January 30, 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-02-04. Retrieved August 4, 2015 – via Google News.