Mammals (Mammalia) Flashcards
Cetartiodactyla (Order)
even-toed ungulates
Bovidae (Family)
Doesn’t shed antlers. cloven-hoofed, ruminant mammals. (bison, buffalo, antelopes, gazelles, sheep, goats, muskoxen, cattle)
cloven hoof
hoof split into two toes.
Cervidae (Family)
shed new antlers each year. ruminant mammals (Deer)
Carnivora (Order)
Carnivora. eat meat. tell by teeth
Canidae (Famliy Carnivora)
long nose, 4 molers (domestic dogs, wolves, foxes, jackals, coyotes)
Mustelidae (Family Carnivora)
rounder 2-3 molers (otters, badgers, weasel, martens, ferrets, minks, and wolverines)
Felidae (Family Carnivora)
round head (tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard)
Ursidae (Family Carnivora)
omnivores (bear)
Chiroptera (order)
Bats
Insectivora (order)
insect eater (moles, shrew)
Lagomorpha (order)
hares & rabbits
Marsupialia (order)
species that has a pouch (kangaroos, koala, possums, opossums, wombats)
Rodentia (order)
single pair of unremittingly growing incisors (mice, rats, squirrels, capybaras)