Artiodactyla

From Ancient Greek ἄρτιος (ártios, “even”) +‎ Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “toe”). Coined by English biologist and paleontologist Richard Owen in 1848.

Artiodactyla

1. A taxonomic order within the class Mammalia – all even-toed ungulates.

• Historically, Cetacea (whales, etc.) were treated as a separate order. It is now believed that whales and their closest relatives evolved from land-dwelling even-toed ungulates.

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

• (order): Ruminantia, Suina, Tylopoda, Whippomorpha – suborders
  • Antilocapridae (pronghorns), Balaenidae (bowheads and right whales), Balaenopteridae (blue whales, humpback whales, gray whales, minke whales, sei whales, fin whales, Bryde's whales, Rice's whales, and Omura's whales), Bovidae (cattle, sheep, goats, antelopes, and buffaloes), Camelidae (camels, llamas, vicuñas, guanacos, and alpacas), Cervidae (deer), Cetotheriidae (pygmy right whales), Delphinidae (common dolphins, bottlenose dolphins, orcas, false killer whales, spotted dolphins, pygmy killer whales, rough-toothed dolphins, melon-headed whales, pilot whales, dusky dolphins, humpback dolphins, Clymene dolphins, white-sided dolphins, white-beaked dolphins, spinner dolphins, striped dolphins, right whale dolphins, tucuxis, Commerson's dolphins, Risso's dolphins, Hector's dolphins, hourglass dolphins, Fraser's dolphins, Heaviside's dolphins, Guiana dolphins, Irrawaddy dolphins, and Chilean dolphins), Giraffidae (giraffes and okapis), Hippopotamidae (hippopotamuses), Iniidae (Amazon river dolphins, Bolivian river dolphins, and Araguaian river dolphins), Kogiidae (pygmy and dwarf sperm whales), Monodontidae (narwhals and belugas), Moschidae (musk deer), Phocoenidae (porpoises), Physeteridae (sperm whales), Platanistidae (Ganges and Indus River dolphins), Pontoporiidae (La Plata dolphins), Suidae (pigs), Tayassuidae (peccaries), Tragulidae (chevrotains), Ziphiidae (beaked whales) – extant families

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• Artiodactyla at the Open Tree of Life Web Project
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