Fissipedia
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Fissipedia is a former biological suborder, comprising the land-based members of the order Carnivora. By and large members of the suborder are meat-eaters with the giant panda the most notable exception.
In some former taxonomic classifications Pinnipedia is treated as an order in its own right, rather than as a suborder within Carnivora. In these classifications, Fissipedia is the sole suborder of Carnivora and is thus omitted on the grounds of redundancy.
- ORDER CARNIVORA
- Suborder Fissipedia (now unused)
- Family Canidae: dogs and allies; 35 species in 10 genera
- Family Procyonidae: raccoons and allies; 19 species in 7 genera
- Family Ursidae: bears; 8 species in 5 genera
- Family Mustelidae weasels, ferrets, badgers, and otters; 55 species in 24 genera
- Family Mephitidae skunks; 10 species in 3 genera
- Family Felidae: cats; 37 species in 4 genera
- Family Viverridae: civets and allies; 35 species in 20 genera
- Family Herpestidae: mongooses and allies; 35 species in 17 genera
- Family Hyaenidae: hyenas and Aardwolf; 4 species in 4 genera
- Suborder Pinnipedia (sometimes formerly a separate order, now unused)
- Suborder Fissipedia (now unused)
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