Odd-taed ungulates
Huif o a horse
Scientific classification
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Cless: Mammalia
Infracless: Eutheria
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
Order: Perissodactyla
Owen, 1848
Families[1]
  • Equidae
  • Tapiridae
  • Rhinocerotidae
  • Lambdotheriidae
  • †Brontotheriidae
  • †Palaeotheriidae
  • †Isectolophidae
  • †Pachynolophidae
  • †Chalicotheriidae
  • †Lophiodontidae
  • †Lophialetidae
  • †Helaletidae
  • †Deperetellidae
  • †Hyrachyidae
  • †Hyracodontidae
  • †Rhodopagidae
  • †Amynodontidae

An odd-taed ungulate is a mammal wi huifs that featur an odd nummer o taes. Odd-taed ungulates comprise the order Perissodactyla (Greek: περισσός, perissós, "uneven", an δάκτυλος, dáktylos, "finger/tae").[2] The middle tae on each huif is uisually muckler nor its neighbours. Odd-taed ungulates are relatively muckle grazers an, unlik the ruminant even-taed ungulates (artiodactyls), thay hae relatively semple stomachs acause thay are hindgut fermenters, digestin plant cellulose in thair intestines rather nor in ane or mair stomachs. Odd-taed ungulates include the horse, tapirs, an rhinoceroses.

References

  1. Hooker, 2005, p. 206.
  2. American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd edition, 1992, p. 1348