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Definition of Prototheria
1. Noun. Echidnas; platypus.
Group relationships: Class Mammalia, Mammalia
Member holonyms: Monotremata, Order Monotremata
Generic synonyms: Class
Definition of Prototheria
1. n. pl. Same as Monotremata.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prototheria
Literary usage of Prototheria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"These two divisions are (1) prototheria and (2) ... but not to dogmatise The
prototheria stand at the base of the mammalian series, and present many ..."
2. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"Sub-class I. prototheria. Mammals in which the mammary glands are devoid of teats;
the oviducts are distinct throughout, and there is a cloaca into which ..."
3. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"There is no question of their generally inferior place in classification; and
hence comes their designation prototheria ("primitive beasts") to take the ..."
4. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"There is no question of their generally inferior place in classification; and
hence comes their designation prototheria ("primitive beasts") to take the ..."
5. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"LASS I. prototheria.—This subclass, now represented by rwo genera, may be
characterised as follows. The brain has je anterior commissure, and a very small ..."
6. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"SUB-CLASS I. prototheria (MONOTREMATA, EGG-LAYING) MAMMALS The modern representatives
of ... prototheria."
7. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"SUB-CLASS I. prototheria (MONOTREMATA, EGG-LAYING) MAMMALS The modern representatives
of this sub-class are few, consisting of but three genera of strange ..."
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