Eutheria
Translingual
Etymology
From Ancient Greek εὖ (eû, “good, true”) + θηρίον (thēríon, “beast”).
Proper noun
Eutheria
- A taxonomic infraclass within the class Mammalia – all mammals more closely related to placentals like rodents and humans than to marsupials.
Usage notes
- almost synonymous with Placentalia
Hypernyms
- (infraclass): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria - subclass[1]
Hyponyms
- (infraclass): Atlantogenata: Xenarthra (anteaters, sloths and armadillos), Afrotheria (elephants, aardvarks, etc); Boreoeutheria: Laurasiatheria (mammals descended from those of the supercontinent of Laurasia), Euarchontoglires (rodents, primates, etc) - superorders
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- (infraclass): Afrosoricida, Artiodactyla, Carnivora, Chiroptera, Cingulata, Dermoptera, Erinaceomorpha, Hyracoidea, Lagomorpha, Macroscelidea, Perissodactyla, Pholidota, Pilosa, Primates, Proboscidea, Rodentia, Scandentia, Sirenia, Soricomorpha, Tubulidentata - orders[1]
References
Eutheria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Eutheria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Eutheria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons