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mammal classificatio
orders of mammals
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| monotremata | egg-layers |
| Edentata | toothless mammals |
| insectivora | insect-eating mammals such as shrews, moles and hedgehogs |
| Chiroptera | flying mammals |
| Primates | tree dwelling mammals |
| Marsupialia | Pouched mammals |
| Carnivora | Flesh Eater |
| Cetacea | marine mammals The order of mammals that includes porpoises, dolphins, and whales. |
| Sirenia | order of manatees, dugongs and sea cows |
| Proboscidea | The order of trunked mammals, such as the elephant. |
| Lagomorpha | What ORDER has long continuously growing teeth; the have long hind legs for hopping; they are herbivores that nests varily? EX. rabbits, hares |
| perrissodactyla | odd-toed hooved, horse tapirs and rhinos |
| dermoptera | having skin or membranous wings like a bat, flying lemurs |
| tubulidentata | aardvark; huge ears pig nose |
| rodentia | Mice, rats, beavers, squirrels, prairie dogs, other gnawing mammals. Front, top, and bottom teeth (incisors) grow continuously. |
| antiodactyla | -even-toed ungulate, Deer, cattle, giraffes, camel, piggies |
| philodota | mammals with hardened scales |
| hyracoidea | defenseless mammals w/padded feet, Hyrax (cony) |