Classification of mammals above the species level
Embracing more than 5,000 genera, distributed in 425 families and 46 orders, McKenna and Bell's "Classification of Mammals" is the most comprehensive work to date on the systematics, relationships, and occurrences of all mammal taxa, living and extinct, down through the rank of genus
Classification
xii, 631 pages (1 folded) : illustrations ; 29 cm
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Introduction. Authorship ; Scope (Upper taxonomic limit ; Lower taxonomic limit ; Synonymy ; Use of taxa, incertiae sedis ; Range data) ; Bibliographic information
History and theory of classification. Hierarchical subordination ; Binomial nomenclature ; Post-Linnaean nomenclature and its management ; Nonterminal taxa and obligatory terminal taxa ; Metataxa or apparent ancestors? ; Paleontological taxa and apparent ancestors ; Crown groups
A classification of mammals. Order Platypoda : platypuses ; Order Tachyglossa : echidnas ; Order Multituberculata ; Order Amphidontoidea ; Order Spalacotherioidea ; Order Dryolestida ; Order Amphitheriida ; Order Deltatheroida ; Order Asiadelphia ; Order Yalkaparidontia ; Order Notoryctemorphia : marsupial moles ; Order Peramelia : bandicoots ; Order Diprotodontia : wombats, kangaroos, koalas, and kin ; Order Didelphimorphia : opossums and kin ; Order Paucituberculata : rat opossums and kin ; Order Sparassodonta ; Order Bibymalagasia ; Order Cingulata : armadillos and kin ; Order Pilosa : anteaters and sloths ; Order Mimotonida ; Order Lagomorpha : pikas and rabbits ; Order Mixodonta ; Order Rodentia : rodents ; Order Cimolesta ; Order Creodonta ; Order Carnivora : carnivores ; Order Chrysochloridea : golden moles ; Order Erinaceomorphia : hedgehogs, moles, and kin ; Order Soricomorpha : shrews, tenrecs, and kin ; Order Chiroptera : bats ; Order Primates : primates ; Order Scandentia : tree shrews ; Order Tubulidentata : aardvarks ; Order Dinocerata ; Order Procreodi ; Order Condylarthra ; Order Arctostylopida ; Order Cete ; Order Artiodactyla : pigs, camels, deer, giraffes, cattle, and kin ; Order Litopterna ; Order Notoungulata ; Order Astrapotheria ; Order Xenungulata ; Order Pyrotheria ; Order Perissodactyla : horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs ; Order Uranotheria, new
Appendix A: Article 36 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
Appendix B: Mammaliaform and mammalian characters
Appendix C: Some close mammalian outgroups (Nonmammalian mammaliaforms)
Appendix D: Taxonomic suffixes denoting rank