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Definition of Subclass prototheria
1. Noun. Echidnas; platypus.
Group relationships: Class Mammalia, Mammalia
Member holonyms: Monotremata, Order Monotremata
Generic synonyms: Class
Literary usage of Subclass prototheria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"Cope in 1889, white retaining the subclass Prototheria for the monotremes, placed
the entire remainder of the class in the subclass Eutheria. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Cope in 1889, while retaining the subclass Prototheria for the monotremes, placed
the entire remainder of the class in the subclass Eutheria. ..."
3. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"... EGG-LAYING MAMMALS —Subclass, PROTOTHERIA: Order, MONOTREMATA THERE remain to
be accounted for those strange, antique mammals, the duckbill and echidnas ..."
4. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"... EGG-LAYING MAMMALS—Subclass, PROTOTHERIA: Order, MONOTREMATA THERE remain to
be accounted for those strange, antique mammals, the duckbill and echidnas, ..."
5. Principles of Animal Biology by Aaron Franklin Shull, George Roger Larue, Alexander Grant Ruthven (1920)
"Subclass PROTOTHERIA. Egg-laying mammals. Monotremes. Subclass EUTHERIA.
Viviparous mammals. True mammals. Invertebrate Groups of Uncertain Position Certain ..."
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