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giant panda
Cat bear,bamboo bear,silver dog,iron-eating beast
The giant panda has lived on the earth for at least 8 million years and is a first-level protected animal in China. At the end of ···
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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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black bear
Ursus thibetanus,Moon bear,bear,black blind man
Black bears, also known as Asiatic black bears, were historically placed in a separate genus <Selenarctos>. A wild hybrid be···
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tiger
Big cat,big insect,mountain king,Yin beast
There are nine species of tigers, namely: Siberian tiger, South China tiger, Bali tiger, Indochinese tiger, Malayan tiger, Javan t···
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kubanochoeres
kubanochoeres
kubanochoeres are a group of large, mound-toothed pigs that once lived in the Old World.Kuban pig is a kind of huge pig that lived···
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wolverine
Wolf's green
Wolf green dog pedigree is more complex, mainly several breeds from the cross, tracing is very difficult, is a big project, both h···
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Taphozous melanopogon
Taphozous melanopogon
The black-bearded tomb bat (Taphozous melanopogon), also known as the black-bearded sheath-tailed bat, is a member of the sheath-t···
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Macroglossus sobrinus
Macroglossus sobrinus
Andersen's long-tongued fruit bat (<M. sobrinus>) was named by Andersen (1911) based on the specimens of Gunong Igari, M···
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Eonycteris spelaea
CHIROPTERA
The tongue of the long-tongued fruit bat is very long, with a brush-like protrusion at the tip, a tridentate papillae in the cente···
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Cynictis penicillata
Cynictis penicillata ,Yellow mongoose, bush-tailed mongoose, yellow mongoose, red mongoose
Yellow mongoose (Cynictis penicillata, G. Cuvier, 1829) is a carnivorous animal of the genus Cynictis in the family Viverridae. Th···
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Ochotona pusilla
Ochotona pusilla
The steppe pika belongs to the subgenus <Pika>. This species has always been considered not to be distributed in my country.···
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Pseudo-Spirited Rat
Pseudo-Spirited Rat
The species status of Pseudo-spiny rat is controversial, and it has long been considered a synonym of the needle-haired rat. The t···
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Niviventer culturatus
Niviventer culturatus，White-tailed rat, sulfur-bellied rat, spiny gray rat, mountain rat, white-bellied rat
The species status of this species is highly controversial. It has long been a synonym of Niviventer confucianus. Only recently ha···
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Niviventer andersoni
Niviventer andersoni
The species status of Andersen's white-bellied rat is stable, with three subspecies differentiation. In molecular systematics,···
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Cansumys canus
Cansumys canus,Cansumys
The taxonomic status of Gansu hamster is controversial. Some scholars regard Gansu hamster as an independent genus and species, so···
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Alexandromys kikuchii
Alexandromys kikuchii,Kikuchi Field Vole
The taxonomic status of Taiwan vole is stable, but the genus-level taxonomic unit has been controversial. Many scientists put this···
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Eothenomys fidelis
Eothenomys fidelis，Southwestern woolly rat
The Lijiang woolly mouse belongs to the genus Eothenomys. The species status is unstable and controversial. The type locality is L···
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Eothenomys shimianensis
Eothenomys shimianensis
Asbestos woolly rat is a new species published by Liu Shaoying et al. in 2018, and its type locality is located in Shimian County,···
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Eothenomys custos
Eothenomys custos,
The southwestern woolly rat belongs to the subgenus <Anteliomys> of the genus <Anteliomys>, and its species-level stat···
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Eospalax rufescens
Eospalax rufescens,Eospalax fontanierii,Eospalax cansus
The classification status of Qinling zokor at both genus and species levels is controversial. At the genus level, some scholars re···
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Petaurista sybilla
Petaurista sybilla，Petaurista elegans
The orange flying squirrel lives in subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests or dark coniferous forests at medium and high altit···
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Petaurisa philippensis
Petaurisa philippensis，Philippine flying squirrel, Giant flying squirrel
Frost-backed flying squirrels live in tropical and subtropical areas, mostly choosing dense tall tree forests. They build nests in···
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Microtus juldaschi
Microtus juldaschi
The Pamir pine vole (Pitymys juldaschi (Severtzov, 1879)) is an animal of the genus Pitymys of the family Cricetidae. The species ···
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Pitymys sikimensis
Pitymys sikimensis (Hodgson,1849)
Sikkim pine voles belong to the subfamily Arvicolinae. It is the model species of the genus Arvicolinae. The taxonomic status of t···
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Microtus fuscus
Microtus fuscus,Neodon fuscus,Microtus strauchi ,Microtus leucurus,Lasiopodomys
Qinghai pine vole belongs to the subfamily Arvicolinae and is a larger species in the genus Arvicolinae. It is brownish yellow in ···
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