Afrothere vs Afrotherian - What's the difference?
afrothere | afrotherian | Synonyms |
(zoology) An afrotherian.
* 2004 , , The Ancestor's Tale , Mariner Books, page 222:
* 2007 , Rodolphe Tabuce et al.,
(zoology) Belonging or pertaining to the superorder Afrotheria, which includes the elephants, aardvarks, golden moles, tenrecs, etc.
* 2003 , Yumie Murata et al., "Afrotherian Phylogeny as Inferred from Complete Mitochondrial Genomes", Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution , volume 28, page 253:
* 2006 , Chris Beard, The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey , University of California Press, page 251:
(zoology) A placental that belongs to the superorder Afrotheria, such as an elephant, aardvark, golden mole, tenrec, etc.
* 2001 , Michael J. Novacek, "Mammalian Phylogeny: Genes and Supertrees", Current Biology , volume 11, page R573:
Afrothere is a synonym of afrotherian.
In zoology|lang=en terms the difference between afrothere and afrotherian
is that afrothere is (zoology) an afrotherian while afrotherian is (zoology) a placental that belongs to the superorder afrotheria, such as an elephant, aardvark, golden mole, tenrec, etc.As nouns the difference between afrothere and afrotherian
is that afrothere is (zoology) an afrotherian while afrotherian is (zoology) a placental that belongs to the superorder afrotheria, such as an elephant, aardvark, golden mole, tenrec, etc.As an adjective afrotherian is
(zoology) belonging or pertaining to the superorder afrotheria, which includes the elephants, aardvarks, golden moles, tenrecs, etc.afrothere
English
Noun
(en noun)- Golden moles and tenrecs seem to be related to each other, and most modern authorities place them within the afrotheres .
"Early Tertiary Mammals from North Africa Reinforce the Molecular Afrotheria Clade", Proceedings of the Royal Society B , volume 274, page 1159:
- In the absence of a comprehensive fossil record for stem members of crown Afrotheria, most high-level phylogenetic analyses have been based primarily on the morphology of extant afrotheres […].
afrotherian
English
(Afrotheria)Adjective
(en adjective)- Although the monophyly of Afrotheria is well supported by recent molecular studies, the interrelationships within afrotherian mammals remain unclarified.
- Just as molecular evidence from living mammals would predict, the African fossil record documents the presence of several afrotherian groups by early or middle Eocene time.
Noun
(en noun)- As their name implies, afrotherians putatively represent a radiation of placentals rooted in the African continent and nearby island of Madagascar.
