Feliformia

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Feliformia Fossil range: Eocene to Recent
Tiger (Panthera tigris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Suborder: Feliformia Kretzoi, 1945
Families
†Barbourofelidae Eupleridae Felidae Herpestidae Hyaenidae Nandiniidae †Nimravidae †Stenoplesictidae †Percrocutidae Viverridae

Feliformia is a suborder in the mammal order Carnivora. It contains all the cat-like animals, which means all of them can pull their claws back into their paws (feet). This group contains the cats, the big cats, hyenas, civets, and more. There are six families, twelve subfamilies, 56 genera and 114 species in the Feliformia suborder now.

The other suborder of Carnivora is the dog-like Caniformia.

Contents 1 Taxonomy 1.1 Cladogram 2 External References 3 Other websites

[change] Taxonomy

• Suborder Feliformia ("cat-like")
  • Family Nandiniidae:
    • Genus Nandinia
      • African Palm Civet, Nandinia binotata
  • Family Felidae: cats
    • Subfamily Pantherinae
    • Subfamily Felinae
  • Family Viverridae
  • Family Hyaenidae: hyenas
    • Subfamily Hyaeninae
    • Subfamily Protelinae
  • Family Herpestidae
  • Family Eupleridae

[change] Cladogram

Feliformia	Nimravidae† Stenoplesictidae† Percrocutidae† Nandiniidae Prionodontidae Barbourofelidae† Felidae Viverridae Hyaenidae Herpestidae Eupleridae

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[change] External References

1. Taxonomic references extant species (a); supporting descriptive information and pictures: Diversity Web (online) - Feliformia.

2. Taxonomic references extant species (b): ITIS Integrated Taxonomic Information System

3. Fossil record data (with taxonomic references) extant and extinct species: The Paleaobiology Database

4. Supporting taxonomic references extant and extinct species: Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification - Suborder Feliformia

5. Gina D. Wesley-Hunt and John J. Flynn 2005: Phylogeny of The Carnivora

6a. Anne D. Yoder and John J. Flynn 2003: Origin of Malagasy Carnivora

6b. Yoder, A., M. Burns, S. Zehr, T. Delefosse, G. Veron, S. Goodman, J. Flynn. 2003: origin of Malagasy Carnivora from an African ancestor – Letters to Nature

7. Philippe Gaubert, W. Chris Wozencraft, Pedro Cordeiro-Estrela and Géraldine Veron. 2005 - Mosaics of Convergences and Noise in Morphological Phylogenies: What's in a Viverrid-Like Carnivoran?

[change] Other websites