Feliformia
Translingual
Etymology
Felis + -iformia
Proper noun
Feliformia
- A taxonomic suborder within the order Carnivora – the cats, civets, mongooses, hyenas, and their closest relatives.
Synonyms
- Feloidea - superfamily
Hypernyms
- (suborder): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Tetrapoda - superclass; Mammalia - class; Theria - supercohort; Eutheria - infraclass; Carnivora - order[1]
Hyponyms
- (suborder): Eupleridae (Malagasy mongooses), Felidae (cats), Herpestidae (mongooses), Hyaenidae (hyenas), Nandiniidae (African palm civet), †Nimravidae, Viverridae (civets, genets, etc) - families
References
Feliformia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Feliformia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Feliformia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Feliformia at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- 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