Meaning | warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female. |
---|
Synonym | class Mammalia |
---|
Member of | Vertebrata, subphylum Vertebrata, Craniata, subphylum Craniata | fishes |
---|
Members | Eutheria, subclass Eutheria | All mammals except monotremes and marsupials |
---|
Metatheria, subclass Metatheria | pouched animals |
Pantotheria, subclass Pantotheria | generalized extinct mammals widespread during the Jurassic |
Prototheria, subclass Prototheria | Echidnas |
Unguiculata | In former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising mammals with nails or claws |
Ungulata | In former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising all hoofed mammals |
mammal, mammalian | Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair |
young mammal | Any immature mammal |
Broader | class | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders |
---|
Spanish | mamíferos |
---|
Catalan | Mammalia |
---|
Adjectives | mammalian | of or relating to the class Mammalia |
---|