Tenrec vs Afrotherian - What's the difference?
tenrec | afrotherian |
Any of several diverse small mammals, of the family Tenrecidae, many native to Madagascar.
(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:
As a proper noun tenrec
is .As an adjective afrotherian is
(zoology) belonging or pertaining to the superorder afrotheria, which includes the elephants, aardvarks, golden moles, tenrecs, etc.As a noun afrotherian is
(zoology) a placental that belongs to the superorder afrotheria, such as an elephant, aardvark, golden mole, tenrec, etc.tenrec
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Alternative forms
* tanrec * tendracNoun
(en noun)Hyponyms
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*afrotherian
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(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.
