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hese pages are intended to pro­vide an overview of the species and some sub­species, includ­ing those already extinct, that belong to the tax­o­nomic Mam­malian Orders within my scope of inter­est. As nature con­ser­va­tion is my dri­ver the lists are based on ‘The IUCN Red List of Threat­ened Species™’ (includ­ing the Cat­a­logue of Life). Other sources used are:

For a visu­al­i­sa­tion of the tax­o­nomic sys­tem­at­ics of the sev­eral car­niv­o­rous Gen­era and Species just fol­low the rel­e­vant links below. Use theTerrestrial carnivore species' taxonomic trees sliding panelsto have the dif­fer­ent tax­o­nomic trees con­ve­nient together in slid­ing panels.


King­domPhy­lumClassOrderFam­ilyGenus /​Species
Ani­maliaAnnel­idaslidingpanelsgreen
FungiArthro­poda
Plan­taeChor­dataActinoptery­gii
Pro­tistaCnidariaAmphibia
Echin­o­der­mataAves
Mol­luscaCepha­laspido­mor­phi
NemertinaChpon­drichthyes
Ony­chophoraMam­maliaAfroso­ri­cida
Platy­helminthesMyx­iniCar­nivoraAil­uri­dae
Rep­tiliaCetar­tio­dactyla†Amph­i­cy­onidae
Sar­coptery­giiChi­roptera †Bar­bouro­fe­l­i­dae
Cin­gu­lata Canidae
Dasyuro­mor­phia †Ena­liarc­ti­dae
Der­moptera Eup­leri­dae
Didel­phi­mor­phia Fel­i­dae
Diprotodon­tia †Hemi­cy­onidae
Eulipo­ty­phla Her­pesti­dae
Hyra­coidea Hyaenidae
Lago­mor­phaMephi­ti­dae
Macroscelidea Mustel­idae
Micro­bio­the­riaNan­dini­idae
Monotremata †Nim­ravi­dae
Noto­rycte­mor­phiaOdobenidae
Pauci­tu­ber­cu­lataOtari­idae
Per­amele­mor­phia †Per­cro­cu­ti­dae
Peris­so­dactyla Pho­ci­dae
Pholi­dota Pri­on­odon­ti­dae
Pri­mates Pro­cy­onidae
Pro­boscidea†Steno­plesic­ti­dae
Roden­tia Ursi­dae
Scan­den­tiaViver­ri­dae
Sire­nia
Tubu­li­den­tata




Goal: 7000 tigers in the wild

Tiger range countries map

Tiger map” (CC BY 2.5) by Sander­son et al., 2006.

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