Biology:Viverroidea

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Short description: Infraorder of carnivores

Viverroids
Temporal range: Late Eocene, 34–0 Ma
Viverroidea.jpg
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Infraorder: Aeluroidea
Parvorder: Viverroidea
Gray, 1821
Families
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Viverroidea is a clade within Feliformia, containing both the family Viverridae, and the superfamily Herpestoidea.

Classification

Phylogenetic tree

The phylogenetic relationships of Viverroidea are shown in the following cladogram:[2]

 Viverroidea 

Viverridae (viverrids) Viverra civetta - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam -(white background).jpg

 Herpestoidea 
 Herpestidae 

Herpestidae (mongooses) Lydekker - Broad-banded Cusimanse (white background).JPG

Eupleridae (Malagasy mongooses) Cryptoprocta ferox - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam -(white background).png

 sensu lato 
 Hyaenidae 

Lophocyonidae

Percrocutidae Dinocrocuta gigantea.jpg

Hyaenidae (hyaenas) Hyaena maculata - 1818-1842 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam -(white background).jpg

 sensu lato 

References

  1. Wozencraft, W.C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". in Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 548–559. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=14000270. 
  2. Barycka, E. (2007). "Evolution and systematics of the feliform Carnivora". Mammalian Biology 72 (5): 257–282. doi:10.1016/j.mambio.2006.10.011. 

Wikidata ☰ Q9776562 entry