Fissipedia ("split feet") is a former suborder of placental mammals comprising the largely land-based families of the order Carnivora.[3] In some former taxonomic classifications, Pinnipedia is treated as an suborder in order Carnivora alongside Fissipedia and Creodonta.[4] rather than as a subgroup of "dog-like" carnivorans.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Fissipedia Blumenbach, 1791[1] |
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Classification edit
- Suborder: Fissipedia (Blumenbach, 1791)
- Superfamily: Canoidea (Waldheim, 1817) ("dog-like" carnivorans)
- Family: Canidae (Waldheim, 1817) [a group with dogs and amphicyonids as its members at that time]
- Family: Mustelidae (Waldheim, 1817) [a group with weasels, ferrets, badgers, otters and skunks as its members at that time]
- Family: Procyonidae (Gray, 1825) [a group with raccoons and red panda as its members at that time]
- Family: Ursidae (Waldheim, 1817) (bears)
- Superfamily : Feloidea (Waldheim, 1817) ("cat-like" carnivorans)
- Family: Felidae (Waldheim, 1817) [a group with cats, nimravids and genus Hyainailouros as its members at that time]
- Family: Hyaenidae (Grey, 1821) (hyenas)
- Family: Viverridae (Grey, 1821) [a group with civets and mongooses as its members at that time]
- Superfamily: †Miacoidea (Cope, 1880)
- Family: †Miacidae (Cope, 1880) [a group with representatives of families Miacidae and Viverravidae as its members at that time]
- Superfamily: Canoidea (Waldheim, 1817) ("dog-like" carnivorans)
References edit
- ^ Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1791.) "Handbuch der Naturgeschichte. Vierte auflage." Göttingen, Johann Christian Dieterich, xii+704+[33] pp., 3 pls.
- ^ Arthur Sperry Pearse (1936.) Zoological names. A list of phyla, classes, and orders, prepared for section F, American Association for the Advancement of Science American Association for the Advancement of Science
- ^ Ledje, C.; Arnason, U. (1996). "Phylogenetic analyses of complete cytochromeb genes of the order Carnivora with particular emphasis on the Caniformia". Journal of Molecular Evolution. 42 (2): 135–144. doi:10.1007/BF02198839. PMID 8919865.
- ^ Simpson, George Gaylord (1945). "The principles of classification and a classification of mammals". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 85: 350. hdl:2246/1104.
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