Dermoptera

Dermoptera

Translingual

Cynocephalus variegatus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δέρμα (dérma, “skin”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”).

Proper noun

Dermoptera

1. A taxonomic order within the class Mammalia – the colugos.

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Tetrapoda - superclass; Mammalia - class; Trechnotheria - subclass; Zatheria - infraclass; Theria - supercohort; Eutheria - cohort; Placentalia - cohort; Boreoeutheria - clade; Euarchontoglires - superorder

Hyponyms

• (order): Cynocephalidae (sole extant family)
  • †Plagiomenidae, †Mixodectidae (extinct families)

References

• Dermoptera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dermoptera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Dermoptera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521