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Orycteropus (aardvark)

Mammalia - Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1791Orycteropus Geoffroy
1825Orycteropus Gray p. 343
1955Orycteropus MacInnes p. 27
1975Orycteropus Patterson p. 201
1975Orycteropus Pickford p. 62
1988Orycteropus Carroll
2003Orycteropus Pickford p. 195
2003Orycteropus Theodorou et al.
2004Orycteropus Lehmann et al. p. 202
2005Orycteropus Lehmann et al. p. 110
2005Orycteropus Pickford p. 719
2006Orycteropus Lehman et al. p. 694
2007Orycteropus Lehmann p. 181
2008Orycteropus Lehmann p. 69

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
RankNameAuthor
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
AfrotheriaStanhope et al. 1998
Afroinsectiphilia
orderTubulidentataHuxley 1872
familyOrycteropodidae
subfamilyOrycteropodinaeGray 1821
genusOrycteropusGeoffroy 1791

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Orycteropus Geoffroy 1791 [aardvark]
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Orycteropus abundulafus Lehmann et al. 2005
Orycteropus afer Pallas 1766 [aardvark]
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Invalid names: Myrmecophaga capensis Gmelin 1788 [synonym], Orycteropus haussanus Matschie 1900 [synonym], Orycteropus senegalensis Schinz 1845 [synonym], Orycteropus wertheri Matschie 1900 [synonym]
Orycteropus browni Colbert 1933
Orycteropus chemeldoi Pickford 1975
Orycteropus crassidens MacInnes 1955
Orycteropus depereti Helbing 1933
Orycteropus djourabensis Lehmann et al. 2004
Orycteropus erikssoni Lonnberg 1906
Orycteropus gaudryi Forsyth Major 1888
Orycteropus leptodon Hirst 1906
Orycteropus mauritanicus Arambourg 1954
Orycteropus minutus Pickford 1975
Orycteropus pilgrimi Colbert 1933
Orycteropus pottieri Ozansoy 1965
Orycteropus sensi Tekkaya 1993
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available