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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Amniota
Synapsida
Mammaliaformes
Class: Mammalia

Mammals
Includes about 4,000 species
Land animals are more dominant

Mammals
Endothermic (warm-blooded)
Can maintain constant body temperature despite changes in the
environment
Allows animals to live in cold environment

Hair
Insulation
Blending in its surrounding
Advertising
Sensory function

Specialized teeth
Two sets of teeth
Baby teeth (first teeth)
Permanent teeth (second set)

Mammary glands

Subclass I: Prototheria
Order I: Monotremata
Subclass II: Theria
Infraclass I: Metatheria
Order I: Masupialia
Infraclass II: Eutheria
Order I: Insectivora
Order II: Dermoptera
Order III: Chiroptera
Order IV: Primates
Suborder I: Strepsirrhini
Infraorder: Lemuriformes
Infraorder: Lorisiformes
Suborder II: Haplorhinni
Infraorder: Platyrrhini
Infraorder: Catarrhini
Infraorder: Tarsioidea
Order V: Edentata
Order VI: Pholidota
Order VII: Rodentia
Order VIII: Lagomorpha
Order IX: Carnivora
Order X: Cetacea
Order XI: Tubulidentata

Subclass: Prototheria
Lay eggs like most non-mammalian
vertebrates
Feed newborn with mammary gland
like any other mammals
Lack nipples, but skin over their
mammary glands exude milk

Order: Monotremata
Monotremata one
opening
Endothermic, but they
have unusual low
metabolic rates
Limbs modified for
swimming or digging
Oviparous
Egg laying mammals

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Echidna (Spicy Anteater)

Subclass: Theria
Common fact that they give birth to
live young
They DID NOT evolve from the
Prototheria

Infraclass: Metatheria
Also known as Marsupials
Young born very immature and
cannot live without further
development in the mothers pouch

Order: Marsuplia
Marsupial marsupium, Latin word
purse
Most marsupials are solitary animals
Marsupials use scent from their skin
glands, urine or feces

Infraclass: Eutheria
Also referred to as placental
mammals
Mothers carry unborn children within
uterus nourished and protected

Order: Insectivora
An order that includes
hedgehogs, moles and
many shrews
Insect-eater
Hedgehog small mammals
that can roll into prickly ball
Moles almost blind,
burrowing animals
Shrew perhaps the tiniest
mammals, quite ferocious

Order: Dermoptera
They are also known as
flying lemurs or colugos
Cynocephalidae 2 species
left
Plagiomenidae extinct

Folivores
Feeding on leaves

Nocturnal
Noted for a membrane
skin

Order: Chiroptera
Among mammals,
bats are unique in
that they have true
powers of flight
Nocturnal
Most bats feed on
insects, some feed
on fruits, nectar or
fish and some
adapted to feed on

Order: Primates
Exhibits wide range of body forms
and life styles
Large and complex brains
Primates are divided into two main
groups:
Lower primates (Suborder Strepsirrhini)
Lemurs, bush babies lorises

Higher primates (Suborder Haplorrhini)

Suborder: Strepsirrhini
Diversed group of small
animals
Mainly nocturnal
Tapetum lucidum light
reflecting disc in the eye to
aid night vision

Infraorder: Lemuriformes
Characterized by a
toothcomb a
specialized set of teeth
in the lower front, used
for combing fur
(grooming)
Have monkey-like bodies
and limbs
Lemur lemures, ghost
or spirit

Infraorder: Lorisiformes
Arboreal
Omnivorous limited to
easy prey
Nocturnal
Lorises slow, deliberate
climbers and creepers on
forest branches
Hard to spot

Galagos or bush babies

Suborder: Haplorhinni
Name means simple
nose
Divided into three
infraorders
Platyrrhini, New World of
Monkeys
Catarrhini, Old World of
Monkeys, apes and
human
Tarsiiformes, tarsiers

Infraorder: Platyrrhini
Referred to as the New
World of Monkeys
Name means flatnosed broad noses
with side-facing, widely
separated nostrils
Arboreal
Diurnal

Infraorder: Catarrhini
Referred as Old World
of Monkeys, apes and
Human
Downward facing
nostrils
Most species live in
social groups
Diurnal
Active mainly during
day

Infraorder: Tarsiiformes
Small animals with
enormous eyes as
large as its entire brain
Incredibly strong
auditory sense
Fovea
responsible for central,
sharpest vision

Nocturnal

Order: Edentata
Also known as Xenarthra
Includes anteaters,
armadillos and sloths
Lack front teeth
Anteater very long snouts
Armadillo small, burrowing
armored mammal
Sloth slow-moving
mammal that lives hanging
upside down from trees

Order: Pholidota
Pangolins or scale
anteaters
Give births to single
offspring, but Asiatic
species can give birth to
three young ones
Feed only on burrowing
social insects ants and
termites
Some are arboreal, others
are burrowing

Order: Rodentia
Rodere Latin, to gnaw
Most are nocturnal or
crepuscular; diurnal;
others may be active
either day or night
Some species are
fossorial (pocket
gopher), aquatic
(beaver), arboreal (tree
squirrel), volant (flying
squirrel), terrestrial
(cotton rat)

Order: Lagomorpha
Includes rabbits,
hares and pikas
Herbivorous, fastmoving animals

Order Carnivora
Include 270 species of bears, cats,
dogs, weasels, pinnipeds, and many
other meat-eaters
DOES NOT include ALL meat-eating
mammals
Divided into two superfamily
Caniformia (dog-like), consist of 7 families
Feliformia (cat-like), consist of 4 families

Order Carnivora

Order Cetacea
Cetus whale, Latin
Ketos huge-fish, Greek
Carnivorus, finned,
aquatic mammals
Virtually hairless
Fusiform-shaped body
Forelimbs modified into
flippers
Auditory communication

Order: Tubulidentata
Medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal
mammal native in Africa
Has a long pig-like snout

Order: Proboscidea
Includes elephants and their extinct relatives
Long muscular trunk, long tusks, and thick columnlike legs
African Elephant largest land mammal
Asian Elephant endangered species
Elephants comparison of two living species of
elephants, Indian and African elephants
Mastodon shaggy, tusked herbivores that lived
during the last Ice Age
Woolly Mammoth an extinct elephant that lived
during the Ice Ages

Order: Proboscidea