
Secundates is an obsolete
order
Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to:
* Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood
* Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...
of
mammal
Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or ...
s created by
Henri-Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (; 12 September 1777 – 1 May 1850) was a French zoologist and anatomist.
Life
Blainville was born at Arques, near Dieppe. As a young man he went to Paris to study art, but ultimately devoted himself to natur ...
in 1839, imitating
Linnean nomenclature (
Primates
Primates are a diverse order of mammals. They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians (monkeys and apes, the latter including huma ...
). It included the suborders
Chiroptera,
Insectivora and
Carnivora
Carnivora is a Clade, monophyletic order of Placentalia, placental mammals consisting of the most recent common ancestor of all felidae, cat-like and canidae, dog-like animals, and all descendants of that ancestor. Members of this group are f ...
.
See also
*
Tertiates
Tertiates is an obsolete order of mammals created by Henri-Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1839, imitating Linnean nomenclature ( Primates). It included the suborder Glires
Glires (, Latin ''glīrēs'' 'dormice') is a clade (sometimes rank ...
*
Quaternates
Quaternates is an obsolete order of mammals created by Henri-Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1839, imitating Linnean nomenclature ( Primates). It included the suborders Gravigrada, Pachydermata, and Ruminantia
Ruminants (suborder Ruminantia ...
References
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* BLAINVILLE, Henri-Marie Ducrotay de (1839): “Nouvelle classification des Mammifères” in ''Annales Françaises et Etrangères d’Anatomie et de Physiologie Appliquées à la Médicine et à l’Histoire Naturelle'', 3, pp. 268-269
Obsolete mammal taxa
Mammal orders
Taxa named by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville