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Polyprotodontia
Taxonomy
Polyprotodonta was named by Owen (1866). It is extant.
It was reranked as the unranked clade Polyprotodontia by Cope (1889); it was reranked as the suborder Polyprotodontia by Flower and Lydekker (1891), Parker and Haswell (1897), Hay (1902), Lambe (1908), Gregory (1910), Simpson (1928) and Hay (1930); it was synonymized subjectively with Didelphii by Jaekel (1911); it was misspelled as Polyprotodontia by Gadow (1898) and Crochet (1995).
It was assigned to Metatheria by Parker and Haswell (1897); to Metatheria by Gadow (1898); to Marsupialia by Cope (1889), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Hay (1902), Lambe (1908), Gregory (1910), Simpson (1928) and Hay (1930); and to Mammalia by Crochet (1995).
It was reranked as the unranked clade Polyprotodontia by Cope (1889); it was reranked as the suborder Polyprotodontia by Flower and Lydekker (1891), Parker and Haswell (1897), Hay (1902), Lambe (1908), Gregory (1910), Simpson (1928) and Hay (1930); it was synonymized subjectively with Didelphii by Jaekel (1911); it was misspelled as Polyprotodontia by Gadow (1898) and Crochet (1995).
It was assigned to Metatheria by Parker and Haswell (1897); to Metatheria by Gadow (1898); to Marsupialia by Cope (1889), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Hay (1902), Lambe (1908), Gregory (1910), Simpson (1928) and Hay (1930); and to Mammalia by Crochet (1995).
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