Mammalia (class)

Esquema

Getty AAT: Living organisms

Jerarquía

Eukaryota (domain) > Animalia (kingdom) > Chordata (phylum) > Vertebrata (subphylum)

Descripción

Large and varied class of vertebrate animals characterized by being warm-blooded, having mammary glands that secrete milk to feed the young, bearing live young (with few exceptins), hair (although it has largely disappeared in some adult animals, such as whales), a lower jaw that is hinged directly to the skull instead of through a separate bone (the quadrate) as in all other vertebrates, three tiny bones that transmit sound waves across the middle ear, a muscular diaphragm separating the heart and the lungs from the abdominal cavity, a left aortic arch, and mature red blood cells lacking a nucleus.

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URI original del concepto

http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300265707

Otros términos

  • mammals [en]
  • mammal [en]