Odd-toed ungulate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The odd-toed ungulates are browsing and grazing mammals such as horses, tapirs and rhinoceroses whose hooves each feature an odd number of toes. The middle toe on each hoof is also usually larger th...
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Perissodactyla, as we know it today, is a small order of hoofed mammals, containing 17 Recent species in three families: Equidae (horses), Tapiridae (tapirs), and Rhinocerotidae (rhinoceroses). ... Click on each family above to learn more, or jump to the Perissodactyla Species List...
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Your guide to the world's hoofed mammals ... Ungulates of the World ... Explore the Ungulate Family Tree...
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"Odd-toed" or "odd-hoofed" mammals make up the Perissodactyla. Like the "even-toed" Artiodactyla, perissodactyls are unguligrades; that is, they walk on the terminal bones of the toes and have enlarged toenails forming hoofs.
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Cerdeño, E. 1993. Cladistic analysis of the family Rhinocerotidae (Perissodactyla). American Museum Novitates 3142:1-25. ... Cerdeño, E. 1999. Diversity and evolutionary trends of the family Rhinocerotidae (Perissodactyla). Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 141:13-34.
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Nine species of Perissodactyla are listed as Endangered, facing a very high risk of extinction, or Critically Endangered, facing an extremely high risk of extinction, on the 2003 IUCN Red List. All species of rhinoceroses are included on this list.
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The name, Perissodactyla, which means literally "odd-fingered ones," points out the major distinctive feature that unites the three very different living families. The horses (including zebras and asses), rhinoceroses, and tapirs all have a mesaxonic limb structure in which a large central digit carries the bulk of...
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The odd-toed ungulates (hoofed mammals) are probably most famous for the horse, largely because of the way humans have domesticated them over the years. However, this order contains animals that are not typically considered as relatives to the horse. ... Order Perissodactyla...
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Perissodactyla - Odd Toed Mammals; (18 species.) ; ... THE ORDER PERISSODACTYLA: All the hoofed mammals, thought to be closely related, were once even placed together in one vast order labeled Ungulata (hoofed). ... The Perissodactyla, or odd-toed ungulates, are those that bear their weight by the longer middle (or third) digit...
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