Questions that will be on the test

Name an order that does not have a marsupium in any of its species

-Paucituberculata

Name 5 families or orders that are endemic to neotropical.....

O:

Name orders endemic to the oriental region

-Dermoptera
-Scandentia

Name orders endemic to the ethiopian region

-Afroscoricida

Name orders endemic to australia

-Notoryctyemorphia
-Peramelemorphia
-Dasyuromorphia

Name orders FROM neotropical and/or nearctic regions

-Didelphimorphia
-Paucituberculata (australia/neotropical)
-microbiotheria

Name animals that have no teeth

Echidnas
Platypus
Called edentate

Name animals that have homodont teeth

sharks, crocs, some toothed whales

Which order only has 2 species in it?

Dermoptera

1. Name an order that's venomous
2. Name a different order that is venomous/or that has venomous species within

1. Eulipotyphla
2. monotremata

Name an order of mammals that uses echolocation

Eulipotyphla (Moles, shrews, and solenodons) or Ariodactyls (whales)
or chiroptera

Name an order of mammals that are volant

chiroptera

Name an order of mammals that are glissant

Dermoptera

What is the lowest taxonomic mammal that gives live birth

Theria

What family is comprised of 1 species

mormoopidae

What are the modes of locomotion

-Cursorial=Running
-Ambulatory=Walking
-Scansorial=Climbing
-Volant=Flying
-Glissant=Gliding
-Fossorial=Digging
-Saltatorial=Jumping
Swimming (no fancy name)
-Plantigrade=Walks on full palm or foot
-Digitigrade=They walk on their digits or fingers

Name an order with no teeth

monotremata

Name 2 orders or families with homdontention

O: Carnivora

F: Dasypodidae/Delphinidae

An order that has a diastema between front and cheek

Perissodactyla

Name an order with 2 upper inciscors and 4 lower inscicors

Hyracoidea

Name an order with 4 upper inciscors and 4 lower inscicors

Rodentia

Name an order with 2 upper inciscors and 2 lower inscicors

Rodentia

Name an order with 4 upper inciscors and 2 lower inscicors

Lagomorpha

Name the order that is the only aquatic herbivore

Sirenia

Unguis

hoof/nail

Name a family that is endemic to North America/Name a family comprised of a single species that is endemic to North America

Antilocapridae/pronghorn

Name a family with homodont teeth

Dasypodidae

Name the order and family with glissant locomotion

rodentia/sciuridae

What is one of the chapters (title) is brady working on?

• Maternal survival: the costs of parturition in female mule deer

• Influence of Aspen treatments on habitat selection of mule deer

Diastema

gap between 2 teeth

order with most primitive # of teeth

Didelphimorphia

non-volant family with cosmopolitan distribution

hominidae

Mammals likely evolved from….

Synapsids

Mammals first appear in the fossil record about

250 mya

aprox. # of mammal species extant in the world

6,500

Classification scheme for living mammals

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Subphylum: Vertebrata

Class: Mammalia

Subclass (0=monotremata): Prototheria

Subclass theria

Infraclass (O=Didelphimorphia): Marsupailia

Infraclass (O=Primates): Placentailia