Mammalia (mammals)

Scientific Classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Common:mammals

Mammalia is the class of vertebrate animals that have mammary glands which they use to feed their young. There are approximately 5,400 species of living mammals.

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Related Page Hierarchy

Class: Mammalia (mammals)
Order: Afrosoricida (tenrecs, golden moles)
Order: Cingulata (armadillos)
Order: Dermoptera (flying lemurs or colugos)
Order: Erinaceomorpha (hedgehogs)
Order: Hyracoidea (hyraxes or dassies)
Order: Macroscelidea (elephant shrews)
Order: Pholidota (pangolins or scaly anteaters)
Order: Scandentia (treeshrews)
Order: Sirenia (dugong, manatees)
Order: Soricomorpha (moles, shrews, solenodons)
Order: Tubulidentata (aardvark)