Definition of Order Artiodactyla

1. Noun. An order of hooved mammals of the subclass Eutheria (including pigs and peccaries and hippopotami and members of the suborder Ruminantia) having an even number of functional toes.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Artiodactyla

order Anguilliformes
order Anoplura
order Anostraca
order Anseriformes
order Anthocerotales
order Anura
order Aphyllophorales
order Aplacophora
order Apodes
order Apodiformes
order Apterygiformes
order Arales
order Araneae
order Araneida
order Aristolochiales
order Artiodactyla (current term)
order Aspergillales
order Auriculariales
order Batoidei
order Batrachia
order Belemnoidea
order Bennettitales
order Berycomorphi
order Blastocladiales
order Branchiura
order Bryales
order Campanulales
order Caprimulgiformes
order Carnivora
order Caryophyllales

Literary usage of Order Artiodactyla

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"Order ARTIODACTYLA. Suborder Non-ruminantia. Family SUID^E.] THE COMMON HOG [Swt Scrofa, Linn.']. Loose Notes on a Hog. At the entrance of the oesophagus of ..."

2. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"SUB-order Artiodactyla. We now come to the second division, and a very large one, of the UNGULATA, which in itself is again subdivided into non-ruminants ..."

3. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Histological Series Contained by John Quekett (1855)
"Order ARTIODACTYLA. Bd 163. A transverse section of the femur of a Pig, Sus scrofa ; the breadth of the bony matter is ..."

4. The Peccary--with Observations on the Introduction of Pigs to the New World by R. A. Donkin (1985)
"B: SCIENTIFIC NOMENCLATURE Order, Artiodactyla (Owen, 1848). The peccaries belong to the mammalian order Artiodactyla (previously a suborder of the ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"In. the order Artiodactyla the sub-order Ruminantia is .represented by a few species only of Cervus, belonging to the neotropical ..."

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