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Felidae (family) (Carnivora (order), Mammalia (class), ... Living Organisms (hierarchy name)) |
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Note: Family of mammals containing 37 species in 18 genera representing the cheetah, puma, jaguar, leopard, lion, lynx, tiger, domestic cat, and others, descended from a common ancestor about 10.8 million years ago. According to a 2006 genomic study the ancestor of extant Leopardus, Lynx, Puma, Prionailurus, and Felis lineages migrated across the Bering land bridge into the Americas approximately 8 to 8.5 million years ago. Members of Felidae are typically characterized by having a long tail, a head with a short nose and round face, large eyes positioned for good binocular vision, usually with short ears, sharp claws that are retractile except in the cheetah, a tongue covered with horny papillae, five toes on their forefeet and four on their hindfeet, with the male larger than the female, possessing a genetic anomaly that prevents them from tasting sweetness, and being the most strictly carnivorous of the mammal families in the order Carnivora. Their closest relatives are thought to be the civets, hyenas, and mongooses.
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| Terms: |
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| Felidae (family) (preferred,C,U,S,English-P,D,U,N)
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| Felidae (family) (Latin-P,D,U,N)
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| cats (Felidae) (C,U,C,English,AD,U,N)
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| cat (Felidae) (C,U,English,AD,U,N)
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| felids (C,U,English,UF,U,N)
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| 貓科 (科) (C,U,Chinese (traditional)-P,D,U,U)
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| 貓 (C,U,Chinese (traditional),UF,U,U)
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| 貍奴 (C,U,Chinese (traditional),UF,U,U)
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| māo kē (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Hanyu Pinyin)-P,UF,U,U)
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| mao ke (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Pinyin without tones)-P,UF,U,U)
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| mao k'o (C,U,Chinese (transliterated Wade-Giles)-P,UF,U,U)
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Facet/Hierarchy Code: H.HL |
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.... Living Organisms (hierarchy name) (G) |
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........ living organisms (entities) (G) |
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............ Eukaryota (domain) (G) |
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................ Animalia (kingdom) (G) |
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.................... Chordata (phylum) (G) |
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........................ Vertebrata (subphylum) (G) |
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............................ Mammalia (class) (G) |
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................................ Carnivora (order) (G) |
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.................................... Felidae (family) (G) |
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| Chinese (traditional) ..... 科名，科下的18個屬包含37種哺乳動物，代表動物有：獵豹、美洲獅、美洲豹、豹、獅、山貓、虎、家貓及其他，均源自約一千零八十萬年前相同的祖先。根據西元2006年一項基因組研究指出，豹、山貓、美洲獅、石虎以及貓屬世系的祖先，約在八百萬到八百五十萬年前，穿越白令大陸橋（Bering land bridge），遷移入美洲。貓科動物一般的特徵為：長尾、短鼻、圓臉、適合雙眼視覺的大眼，通常有短耳與可伸縮自如的尖利爪子（印度豹除外），舌頭上有披覆角質層的乳突，前足各具五個腳趾而後足各具四個腳趾。雄性比雌性體型大，具有一種基因異常而使其無法嘗出甜味，是哺乳類食肉目中最嚴格實行肉食性的動物，其最近的親屬一般認為是麝貓、鬣狗與貓鼬。 |
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