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Monachus schauinslandi
Monachus schauinslandi,Hawaiian monk seal
Hawaiian monk seal (scientific name: Monachus schauinslandi) is the only native seal in Hawaii.Except for the breeding season, Haw···
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The following is a detailed classification table of mammals, including all orders, families, genera and typical animals:
| sort | Order | Family | Genus | Examples |
| Monotremata | Monotremata | Ornithorhynchidae | Ornithorhynchus | Platypus, Echidna |
| Tachyglossidae | Echidna | Echidna | ||
| Marsupialia | Marsupialia | Macropodidae | Macropus | Kangaroos, wombats, possums |
| Phascolarctidae | Phascolarctos | koala | ||
| Dasyuridae | Dasyurus | Bandicoot, Tasmanian devil | ||
| Eutheria | Carnivora | Canidae | Canis | Wolf, dog, fox |
| Felidae | Felis | House cat, lion, tiger | ||
| Ursidae | Ursus | Black bear, brown bear, polar bear | ||
| Perissodactyla | Equidae | Equus | Horse, donkey, zebra | |
| Rhinocerotidae | Rhinoceros | White rhino, black rhino | ||
| Tapiridae | Tapirus | Tapirus | ||
| Artiodactyla | Bovidae | Bos | Cattle, antelopes, sheep | |
| Cervidae | Cervus | Deer, reindeer, sika deer | ||
| Suidae | Sus | Wild boar, domestic pig | ||
| Cetacea | Balaenidae | Megaptera | Humpback whale, blue whale | |
| Delphinidae | Delphinus | Dolphins, killer whales | ||
| Primates | Cercopithecidae | Pongo | Orangutans, gibbons, monkeys | |
| Hominidae | Homo | Humans, chimpanzees, orangutans | ||
| Rodentia | Sciuridae | Sciurus | Squirrels, Ground Squirrels | |
| Castoridae | Castor | beaver | ||
| Muridae | Mus | House mouse, vole | ||
| Chiroptera | Vespertilionidae | Myotis | Small bat, big bat | |
| Lagomorpha | Leporidae | Oryctolagus | Rabbit, hare |
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Herpestes urva
Herpestes urva,Crab-eating Mongoose,Mountain badger, brown cat, rock badger
Crab-eating mongoose (Latin name: Herpestes urva) is also known as mountain badger, stone badger, water badger, white badger, bamb···
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Herpestes smithii
Herpestes smithii,Ruddy Mongoose,Red mongoose, Golden palm civet
Ruddy Mongoose (scientific name: Herpestes smithii) is called "mugatiya" in Sinhalese in Sri Lanka. It is generally cons···
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Herpestes edwardsii
Herpestes edwardsii,Indian Gray Mongoose
The gray mongoose, scientifically known as Herpestes edwardsii, is a lone ranger that likes to wander around in the early morning ···
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Helogale parvula,Dwarf mongoose
Helogale parvula
The dwarf mongoose (scientific name Helogale parvula) is a small carnivore in Africa and a snake nemesis.The dwarf mongoose is doc···
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Atilax paludinosus,
Atilax paludinosus,Swamp Mongoose
The swamp mongoose (scientific name Atilax paludinosus) is a medium-sized mongoose.The swamp mongoose is a solitary animal with te···
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Proteles cristatus
Proteles cristatus,Aardwolf, Hyena
Coyote (scientific name: Proteles cristatus) is also known as Aardwolf in English. It has two subspecies.The coyote is small, its ···
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Parahyaena brunnea
Parahyaena brunnea,Brown Hyaena,Brown hyena, beach wolf
Brown hyena (scientific name: Parahyaena brunnea) is also known as Brown Hyaena in English. It has two subspecies.Brown hyenas hav···
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Hyaena hyaena
Hyaena hyaena,Striped Hyaena， Hyène rayée，Hiena Rayada， Daba'a Moukhattat
Striped hyena (scientific name: Hyaena hyaena) English Striped Hyaena, French Hyène rayée, Spanish Hiena Rayada, Arabic Daba'···
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Crocuta crocuta
Crocuta crocuta,Spotted Hyaena,Spotted Hyena
Spotted hyena (scientific name: Crocuta crocuta), also known as spotted hyena, is a member of the genus Crocuta and family Hyaenid···
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Civettictis civetta
Civettictis civetta
The African civet (scientific name: Civettictis civetta) is a civet in tropical Africa.The African civet is the largest representa···
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Paguma larvata
Paguma larvata,Masked Palm Civet,Civet cat, white nose heart, hairy mouse, white eyebrow, five-faced civet cat, white nose dog, Qingjie, etc.
Paguma larvata (scientific name: Masked Palm Civet) is a carnivorous animal of the family Viverridae and the genus Paguma. It has ···
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Fossa fossana
Fossa fossana,Spotted Fanaloka,Malagasy civet, Malagasy civet, Malagasy civet
The Spotted Fanaloka (scientific name: Fossa fossana) is also called the Spotted Fanaloka, but it is not a cat. It is called the S···
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Eupleres goudotii
Eupleres goudotii,Small-toothed mongoose, sharp-nosed civet, anteater
The small-toothed mongoose (scientific name: Eupleres goudotii), also known as the small-toothed mongoose or sharp-nosed civet, is···
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Cryptoprocta ferox
Cryptoprocta ferox,Fossa, Hidden Anal Civet, Hidden Spirit Cat
The mongoose (scientific name: Cryptoprocta ferox) is called Fossa in foreign language, and has no subspecies.The nests of the mon···
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Panthera onca
Panthera onca，Jaguar,Jaguar, jaguar
The scientific name of the jaguar is Panthera onca (Linnaeus, 1758), and its foreign name is Jaguar, also known as the jaguar. It ···
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Tigon
Tigon
Tigon (English name Tigon) is a hybrid of a male tiger and a female lion. It is congenitally weak and more precious than a liger.T···
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Panthera leo × tigris
Panthera leo × tigris,liger
Liger (scientific name: Panthera leo×tigris), also known as liger in English, is the offspring of a lion and a tiger. It is huge ···
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Golden Tiger
Golden Tiger，Strawberry Tiger
The golden tiger is a golden variant of the Bengal tiger. It is golden with black stripes. It is extinct in the wild and is even r···
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Pure White Tiger
Pure White Tiger
Pure white tigers, as the name suggests, are all white without any stripes. There have only been two pure white Bengal tigers in t···
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Snow Tiger
Snow Tiger
The snow tiger is the result of further mutation of the white tiger gene, with a probability of one in 100,000. It is a silver-whi···
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Bengal White Tiger
Bengal White Tiger,Bengal Tiger (white),Bengal white tiger, white tiger Bengal white tiger, white tiger
The albino Bengal tiger (English name: Bengal White Tiger) is also known as the Bengal white tiger, or "white tiger" for···
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Panthera tigris virgata
Panthera tigris virgata，Persian tiger, Xinjiang tiger, Caucasian tiger, Turan tiger, West Asian tiger, Central Asian tiger, Black Sea tiger
The Caspian tiger (Latin name: Panthera tigris virgata) is the third largest subspecies of tiger, second only to the Siberian tige···
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Panthera tigris tigris
Panthera tigris tigris,Bengal Tiger,Indian tiger, Bhutan tiger, Royal Bengal tiger
Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris), also known as Bengal Tiger, is a nominative subspecies of tiger, also known as Indian tiger···
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