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Definition of Order Artiodactyla
1. Noun. An order of hooved mammals of the subclass Eutheria (including pigs and peccaries and hippopotami and members of the suborder Ruminantia) having an even number of functional toes.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Eutheria, Subclass Eutheria
Member holonyms: Artiodactyl, Artiodactyl Mammal, Even-toed Ungulate, Family Suidae, Suidae, Family Tayassuidae, Tayassuidae, Family Hippopotamidae, Hippopotamidae, Ruminantia, Suborder Ruminantia, Camelidae, Family Camelidae
Derivative terms: Artiodactylous
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Artiodactyla
Literary usage of Order Artiodactyla
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"Order ARTIODACTYLA. Suborder Non-ruminantia. Family SUID^E.] THE COMMON HOG [Swt
Scrofa, Linn.']. Loose Notes on a Hog. At the entrance of the oesophagus of ..."
2. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"SUB-order Artiodactyla. We now come to the second division, and a very large one,
of the UNGULATA, which in itself is again subdivided into non-ruminants ..."
3. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Histological Series Contained by John Quekett (1855)
"Order ARTIODACTYLA. Bd 163. A transverse section of the femur of a Pig, Sus
scrofa ; the breadth of the bony matter is ..."
4. The Peccary--with Observations on the Introduction of Pigs to the New World by R. A. Donkin (1985)
"B: SCIENTIFIC NOMENCLATURE Order, Artiodactyla (Owen, 1848). The peccaries belong
to the mammalian order Artiodactyla (previously a suborder of the ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"In. the order Artiodactyla the sub-order Ruminantia is .represented by a few
species only of Cervus, belonging to the neotropical ..."
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