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NDSU Mammalogy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| echidnas or spiny anteaters and duck-billed platypus | Monotremata |
| opossums | Didelphimorphia |
| rat opossums | Paucituberculata |
| numbat and marsupial rats, and "carnivores" | Dasyuromorphia |
| bandicoots and bilbies | Peramelemorphia |
| marsupial "moles" | Notoryctemorphia |
| Koala, wombats, possums, cuscuses, kangaroos, wallabies, pygmy gliders, ringtailed possums, greater glider, honey possum, feathertail possum, feathertail glider | Diprotodontia |
| armadillos | Cingulata |
| sloths and anteaters | Pilosa |
| hedgehogs and gymnures | Erinaceomorpha |
| shrews, moles, and solenodons | Soricomorpha |
| tenrecs and golden moles | Afrosoricida |
| elephant shrews | Macroscelidea |
| tree shrews | Scandentia |
| colugos or flying lemurs | Dermoptera |
| aye-aye, lemure, galagos, lorises, tarsiers, marmosets, monkeys, apes, humans | Primates |
| bats | Chiroptera |
| cats, civets, mongooses, hyenas, aardwolf, foxes, wolves, jackals, bears, pandas, seals, sea lions, walrus, skunks, weasels, otters, raccoon | Carnivora |
| baleen and toothed whales | Cetacea |
| dugons, sea cows, manatees | Sirenia |
| elephants | Proboscidea |
| horses, tapirs, and rhinoceroses | Perissodactyla |
| hyraxes and dassies | Hyracoidea |
| aardvark | Tubulidentata |
| "even toed" pigs, hippos, camels, mouse deer, giraffe, okapi, musk deer, deer, elk, caribou, moose, pronghorn antelope, cattle, buffalos, bison, antelopes,and gazelles | Artiodactyla |
| pangolins or scaly anteaters | Pholidota |
| mountain beaver, squirrels, woodchucks, beavers, pocket gophers, kangaroo rats, pocket mice, jerboas, rats, mice, porcupines, chinchillas, guines pigs, capybara, tuco-tucos, and nutria | Rodentia |
| pikas, rabbits, and hares | Lagomorpha |
| monito del montes, "little monkey of the mountains" | Microbiotheria |