Eutheria

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὖ (eû, “good, true”) + θηρίον (thēríon, “beast”).

Proper noun

Eutheria

1. A taxonomic infraclass within the class Mammalia – all mammals more closely related to placentals like rodents and humans than to marsupials.

Usage notes

• almost synonymous with Placentalia

Hypernyms

• (infraclass): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – subclass

Hyponyms

• (infraclass): Atlantogenata: Xenarthra (anteaters, sloths and armadillos), Afrotheria (elephants, aardvarks, etc); Boreoeutheria: Laurasiatheria (mammals descended from those of the supercontinent of Laurasia), Euarchontoglires (rodents, primates, etc) – superorders

or

• (infraclass): Afrosoricida, Artiodactyla, Carnivora, Chiroptera, Cingulata, Dermoptera, Eulipotyphla, Hyracoidea, Lagomorpha, Macroscelidea, Perissodactyla, Pholidota, Pilosa, Primates, Proboscidea, Rodentia, Scandentia, Sirenia, Tubulidentata – orders

References

• Eutheria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eutheria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Eutheria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons