Boreoeutheria
Magnorder of mammals containing Laurasiatheria and Euarchontoglires / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Boreoeutheria (/boʊˌriːoʊjuːˈθɛriə/, "northern true beasts") is a magnorder of placental mammals that groups together superorders Euarchontoglires and Laurasiatheria.[1][2][5] With a few exceptions,[lower-alpha 1] male boreoeutherians have a scrotum, an ancestral feature of the clade.[6][7] The sub-clade Scrotifera was named after this feature.[8]
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From top to right: European hedgehog, Lyle's flying fox, Siberian tiger, Indian pangolin, red deer and white rhino. Representing the orders: Eulipotyphla, Chiroptera, Carnivora, Pholidota, Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla, comprising Laurasiatheria. | |
From top to left: Sunda colugo, Desmarest's hutia, lar gibbon, European hare, brown rat, common treeshrew, ring-tailed lemur, and human playing with a rabbit. Representing the orders: Dermoptera, Rodentia, Primates, Lagomorpha, and Scandentia, comprising Euarchontoglires. | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Eutheria |
Infraclass: | Placentalia |
Magnorder: | Boreoeutheria Springer & de Jong, 2001;[1] Murphy et al., 2001[2] |
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