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Taxon: Superfamily Bovoidea Gray, 1821 (mammal)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Cetartiodactyla

Original position

Questionably Ruminantia (Suborder) Scopoli, 1777

Subsequent entries

Bovidae (Family) Gray, 1821

Current position

Pecora (Infraorder) Linnaeus, 1758

Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 642.

Alternative positions

*Ruminantia* (Infraorder) Scopoli, 1777	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 434. [implicit]
*Ruminantia* (Suborder) Scopoli, 1777	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 434.

Historical positions

*Ruminantia* (Suborder) Scopoli, 1777	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 434.
*Pecora* (Infraorder) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 642.
*Pecora* (Infraorder) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: G.G. Simpson, 1945

Number of Subtaxa

2024	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	2f;52g;141s;125ss; ‡1g;6s;6ss; †150g;53s;2ss
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	1f;48g;133s; ‡1g;6s; †142g
1997	M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell	[1f;48g; ‡1g; †142g]
1988	R.L. Carroll: 643	[2f]
1945	G.G. Simpson:	[2f]

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