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Tetrapoda: Presence of limbs

Class Mammalia
Sub-classes:
1. Eutheria: Presence of placenta (true placental), true parental cares
(mammary glands)
2. Metatheria: Pouched animals
3. Prototheria: Egg laying mammals
Features of a Classic Mammal:
 Gives birth to young ones
 Mammary glands
 Has body hair
 Generally, breathes air
17 Orders Under Eutherians
1. Insectivora: insect eating (hedgehogs, moles, shrews)
2. Chiroptera: Bats
3. Edentata: ant eaters, sloths.
4. Dermoptera: flying lemurs
5. Primata: lemurs, monkeys, apes
6. Pholidota: pangolins
7. Lagomorpha: hares, rabbit, pikas
8. Rodentia: all rodents
9. Cetacea: aquatic, all features of a classic mammal (whales,
dolphins)
10. Carnivora: carnivorous (dogs, weasels, lions)
11. Pinnipedia: Aquatic fin footed (seals, sea lions)
12. Sirenia: Aquatic herbivores (manatees, dugong)
13. Tubulidentata: Aardvark
14. Proboscidea: Trunk and tusks (Only Elephants)
15. Hyracoidea: Hyraxes
16. Perissodacytla: Odd-numbered hooves (horses, tapir, Rhino)
17. Artiodactyla: Even-number of hooves (Pigs, Camels, Deer,
Giraffes, Antelopes)

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