List of placental mammals

The class Mammalia (mammals) is divided into two subclasses based on reproductive techniques: monotremes, which lay eggs, and therians, mammals which give live birth, which has two infraclasses: marsupials (pouched mammals) and placental mammals. See List of monotremes and marsupials, and for the clades and families, see Mammal classification. Classification updated from Wilson and Reeder's Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference using the Planet' Mammifères website.[1]

Over 70% of mammal species are in the orders Rodentia (blue), Chiroptera (red), and Soricomorpha (yellow)
  Rodentia
  Chiroptera
  Soricomorpha
  Primates
  Carnivora
  Artiodactyla
  Diprotodontia
  Lagomorpha
  Didelphimorphia
  Cetacea
  Dasyuromorphia
  Afrosoricida
  Erinaceomorpha
  Cingulata
  Peramelemorphia
  Scandentia
  Perissodactyla
  Macroscelidea
  Pilosa
  Monotremata
  Proboscidea

Magnorder Atlantogenata
Order Tubulidentata (aardvarks)
Aardvark, Orycteropus afer
Order Macroscelidea (elephant shrews)
Black and rufous elephant shrew
Order Afrosoricida (tenrecs and golden moles)
A tenrec
Order Hyracoidea (hyraxes)
Cape hyrax, Procavia capensis
Order Proboscidea (elephants)
African bush elephant, Loxodonta africana
Order Sirenia (dugongs and manatees)
West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus

Order Cingulata (armadillos)
Armadillo Glyptotherium restoration

Order Pilosa

10 extant species in 4 families, all in the Americas, comprising anteaters and sloths.

Silky anteater
Suborder Vermilingua (anteaters)
Suborder Folivora (sloths)

Magnorder Boreoeutheria
Order Scandentia (treeshrews)

There are 20 species placed in five genera; all are from Southeast Asia.

Order Dermoptera (colugos)
Sunda flying lemur
Order Primates
Galago Otolemur crassicaudatus
Main article: List of primates
Order Rodentia
Main article: List of rodents
Order Lagomorpha
Desert cottontail, Sylvilagus audubonii
Main article: List of lagomorphs

Order Eulipotyphla
Four-toed hedgehog
North African hedgehog
Southern African hedgehog
Order Chiroptera (bats)
Large-eared pied bat
Main article: List of bats
Order Pholidota (pangolins)
An Indian pangolin
Order Cetacea
A Commerson's dolphin
Main article: List of cetaceans
See also: List of extinct cetaceans
Order Carnivora
Dog
Main article: List of species in order Carnivora
Order Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates)
Tibetan wild ass

Known as odd-toed ungulates, their rear hooves consist of an odd number of toes.

Suborder Hippomorpha
Suborder Ceratomorpha
Order Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates)
Bactrian camel, Camelus bactrianus)
Main article: List of artiodactyls

These are the even-toed ungulates

See also

References
  1. Boudet Ch. "Planet' Mammiferes". Planet' Mammiferes. 4.1 of 2013/12/23. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  2. Smit, H.A.; Robinson, T.J.; Watson, J.; Jansen Van Vuuren, B. (October 2008). "A new species of elephant-shrew (Afrotheria: Macroselidea: Elephantulus) from South Africa". Journal of Mammalogy. 89 (5): 1257–1269. doi:10.1644/07-MAMM-A-254.1.
  3. "Shrew's who: New mammal enters the book of life". AFP. January 30, 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-02-04. Retrieved August 4, 2015 – via Google News.
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