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Taxon: Superfamily Bovoidea Gray, 1821 (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Cetartiodactyla

Original position

Questionably Ruminantia (Suborder) Scopoli, 1777

Subsequent entries

Bovidae (Family) Gray, 1821

Current position

Pecora (Infraorder) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 642).

Alternative positions

Ruminantia (Infraorder) Scopoli, 1777 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 434. [implicit]
Ruminantia (Suborder) Scopoli, 1777 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 434.

Historical positions

Ruminantia (Suborder) Scopoli, 1777 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 434.
Pecora (Infraorder) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 642).
Pecora (Infraorder) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: G.G. Simpson, 1945

Number of Subtaxa

2026 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 2f;52g;141s;125ss; ‡1g;6s;6ss; †150g;53s;2ss
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000 1f;48g;133s; ‡1g;6s; †142g
1997 M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell [1f;48g; ‡1g; †142g]
1988 R.L. Carroll: 643 [2f]
1945 G.G. Simpson: [2f]
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