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Bellua (disused)

Mammalia - Bellua

Discussion

Linnaeus' now obsolete Bellua (order VII) included only Hippopotamus and Equus. He placed most other artiodactyls in Pecora (order IV) and did not recognize the order Perissodactyla (Rhinoceros fell in Glires and tapirs were omitted completely).

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Taxonomy
Bellua was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was assigned to Mammalia by Linnaeus (1758).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Bellua Linnaeus p. 73

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
orderBellua
orderBellua

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.

Or. Bellua Linnaeus 1758
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: scansorialuc
Diet: insectivoreuc
Created: 2005-09-06 19:53:51
Modified: 2005-09-07 19:44:02
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Hopson 1973, Luo et al. 2003
Collections
No collection or age range data are available