Feliformia

Translingual

Etymology

Felis +‎ -iformia

Proper noun

Feliformia

A taxonomic suborder within the order Carnivora – cats, civets, mongooses, hyenas, and their closest relatives.

Synonyms

Feloidea - superfamily

Hypernyms

(suborder): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – supercohort; Eutheria – infraclass; Carnivora – order[1]

Hyponyms

(suborder): Eupleridae (Malagasy mongooses), Felidae (cats), Herpestidae (mongooses), Hyaenidae (hyenas), Nandiniidae (African palm civet), †Nimravidae, Viverridae (civets, genets, etc) - families

References

Feliformia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Feliformia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Feliformia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Feliformia at National Center for Biotechnology Information

Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248

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