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Ruminantia

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Mammalia
Subclassis: Theria
Infraclassis: Placentalia
Superordo: Cetartiodactyla
Ordo: Artiodactyla
Subordo: Ruminantia
Familiae: Antilocapridae - Bovidae - Cervidae - Giraffidae - Moschidae - Tragulidae

Name

Ruminantia (Scopoli, 1777)

Vernacular names
Internationalization
Česky: Přežvýkaví
Dansk: Firemavedrøvtygger
Deutsch: Wiederkäuer
עברית: מעלי גירה
Hrvatski: Preživači
日本語: ウシ亜目
Lëtzebuergesch: Déieren, déi idderzen
Lietuvių: Atrajotojai
Nederlands: Herkauwers
‪Norsk (bokmål)‬: Drøvtyggere
Русский: Жвачные
Suomi: Märehtijät
Svenska: Idisslare
Türkçe: Gevişgetirenler
Українська: Жуйні
Tiếng Việt: Phân bộ Nhai lại

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The biological suborder Ruminantia includes many of the well-known large grazing or browsing mammals: among them cattle, goats, sheep, deer, and antelope. All members of the Ruminantia are ruminants: they digest food in two steps, chewing and swallowing in the normal way to begin with, and then regurgitating the semi-digested cud to re-chew it and thus extract the maximum possible food value.

Note that not all ruminants belong to the Ruminantia.[1] Camels and llamas are among the exceptions, a suborder known as Tylopoda.[2] Also, there are a number of other large grazing mammals that, while not strictly ruminants, have similar adaptations for surviving on large quantities of low-grade food. Kangaroos and horses are examples.

References

1., 2. ^ Whistler, D. P. and S. D. Webb. 2005. New goatlike camelid from the late Pliocene of Tecopa Lake Basin, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Contributions in Science 503:1-40.

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