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Ruminantia (ruminant)
Taxonomy
Ruminantia was named by Scopoli (1777). It is extant.
It was reranked as the unranked clade Ruminantia by Spaulding et al. (2009).
It was assigned to Cetartiodactyla by Boisserie et al. (2005) and Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); to Artiodactyla by Gregory (1910), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Carroll (1988), Anyonge (1991), Sach and Heizmann (2001), Khan and Sarwar (2002), Mead and Taylor (2005) and Webb (2008); to Ruminantiamorpha by Spaulding et al. (2009); to Artiodactyla by Owen (1848) and Asher and Helgen (2010); and to Cetruminantia by Waddell et al. (1999), Ursing et al. (2000) and Boisserie et al. (2011).
It was reranked as the unranked clade Ruminantia by Spaulding et al. (2009).
It was assigned to Cetartiodactyla by Boisserie et al. (2005) and Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008); to Artiodactyla by Gregory (1910), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Carroll (1988), Anyonge (1991), Sach and Heizmann (2001), Khan and Sarwar (2002), Mead and Taylor (2005) and Webb (2008); to Ruminantiamorpha by Spaulding et al. (2009); to Artiodactyla by Owen (1848) and Asher and Helgen (2010); and to Cetruminantia by Waddell et al. (1999), Ursing et al. (2000) and Boisserie et al. (2011).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1777 | Ruminantia Scopoli |
| 1848 | Ruminantia Owen p. 139 |
| 1910 | Ruminantia Gregory p. 466 |
| 1981 | Ruminantia Thurmond and Jones p. 188 |
| 1988 | Ruminantia Carroll |
| 1991 | Ruminantia Anyonge p. 385 |
| 1999 | Ruminantia Waddell et al. p. 2 |
| 2000 | Ruminantia Ursing et al. |
| 2001 | Ruminantia Sach and Heizmann p. 35 |
| 2002 | Ruminantia Khan and Sarwar p. 140 |
| 2005 | Ruminantia Boisserie et al. |
| 2005 | Ruminantia Mead and Taylor p. 3 |
| 2008 | Ruminantia Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 974 figs. Fig. 2 |
| 2008 | Ruminantia Webb p. 19 |
| 2009 | Ruminantia Spaulding et al. |
| 2010 | Ruminantia Asher and Helgen p. 3 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2011 | Ruminantia Boisserie et al. p. 620 figs. Table 1 |
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