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Order GLIRES - (Gnawers)
Two large incisors in each jaw, separated by from the molars by a vacant space ; no canine teeth; molars sometimes compound, with flat crowns, sometimes with blunt tubercles ; extremities terminated by a variable number of toes furnished with claws ; thumb sometimes rudi = mentary or wanting, never opposable to the fingers ; zygomatic arch processes moderately arched, thin, curved inferiorly ; inferior jaw articulated by a longitudinal condyle.
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Class
MAMALIA.
Order carnivora -
The incisors, canine and molars most generally adapted for animal food; four Extremities, the anterior of which are never terminated by hands ; mammae varying in number; articulation of the lower jaw directed transversely, not admitting any lateral motion ; orbits not separate from the temporal fossae.
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Order Edentata.
No incisors in either jaw. Some = = times canine + molar teeth, at other times molars teeth only, often none whatever ; four extremities terminated by a variable number of toes, armed with large nails, never constructed like hands ; the orbitar [orbital] and temporal fossae united.
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ORDER Cetacea
Body pisiform, terminated by a caudal appendage cartilaginous, and horizontal; two anterior members only, in form of fins, the bones of which are very short; seven cervical vertebrae, very thin, and in part anchylosed with each other; pelvis and bones of the posterior extremities represented by two rudimentary bones, lost in the flesh.
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Order PECORA.
(Ruminating Animals)
Inferior incisors only, most frequently Eight in number; canines sometimes wanting; crowns of the molars formed of two double crossings of enamel, disposed in pairs, and in inverse directions in the two jaws, the convexity being turned outward in the lower jaw and inward in the upper; two equal toes furnished with hoofs ; a single metacarpal or metatarsal bone for the two toes of each foot; no clavicles; often with horns.
